WhenLindsey Vonnchose to compete at the 2026Winter Olympicsdespite tearing her ACL days earlier, critics questioned the risk.
Turns out, though, that torn ACL may have saved her leg.
Inan Instagram video posted Monday, Vonn detailed the extent of her injuries following her terrifying crash in the women's downhill.
"Oh well guys, after two weeks, I finally made it out of the hospital," Vonn said. "It has been quite the journey and by far the most extreme and painful and challenging injury I've ever faced in my entire life times 100."
Vonn revealed she suffered a complex tibia fracture, along with fractures to her fibular head and tibial plateau, saying "just kind of everything was in pieces."
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The real danger, though, was compartment syndrome.
She explained: "Compartment syndrome is when you have so much trauma to one area of your body that there's too much blood, and it gets stuck, and it basically crushes everything in the compartment. So all the muscle and nerves and tendons, it all kind of dies."
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Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett with saving her limb.
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