Legendary American skier Lindsey Vonn underwent surgery to stabilize a leg fracture after she <a href=" early in her first run in the women's downhill final Sunday at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics,

On Sunday, when it was her turn to compete, Vonn made it just 13 seconds into her run before crashing following a jump and screaming in pain. The medical team came running to her as the competition paused and she was eventually airlifted to a hospital. The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team shared an update on Vonn's health several hours after the crash.

In the 1970s and 1980s, combined ACL and grade 3 medial collateral ligament injuries were primarily treated with big, open surgical procedures.“It was terrible,” Andy Williams, MBBS, FRCS(Ortho), FFSEM(UK),

More and more young people are tearing their ACLs, but an innovative procedure is now approved for use on the youngest patients. Dr. Mallika Marshall says this could become the surgery of choice for student athletes of all ages. One of the patients ...

Vonn is skiing cautiously at the Olympics a week after tearing her ACL.

Lindsey Vonn wiped out in a downhill race on January 30. She got up limping, then was airlifted from the course. The diagnosis: a ruptured ACL — a season-ending injury for most.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -A Greenville surgeon has become the first at ECU Health to perform an innovative surgery that helps the body heal from a torn ACL. ECU Health has announced that Dr. Christopher Hasty, an orthopedic surgeon with ECU Health and ...

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In an Instagram post, the decorated downhill skier says her torn ACL had nothing to do with the the crash that ended her comeback dreams.