{"id":230849,"date":"2026-03-26T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/the-invincible-lindsey-vonn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:36:07","slug":"the-invincible-lindsey-vonn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/the-invincible-lindsey-vonn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invincible Lindsey Vonn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Lindsey Vonn has this recurring dream. She\u2019s back at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Milano Cortina Olympics<\/a> in February, racing down the famous course of Olimpia delle Tofane just as she has so many times before: Across her record-shattering two-decade career, Vonn\u2019s had 12 wins on that hill. She tucks and turns and carves going full speed\u2014which, for Vonn, can be over 80 miles per hour\u2014until the finish line is in sight. She crosses it, triumphant.<\/p>\n<p>Then she wakes up. To a reality where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/story\/lindsey-vonn-crash-olympics-airlifted\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"noopener\">she did not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Instead, she crashed 13 seconds into the race and shattered her tibia, fibula, and ankle in the process\u2014injuries so severe that she spent weeks in the hospital and almost lost her left leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI was number one in the world, and potentially on my way to an Olympic medal,\u201d Vonn tells me. \u201cNow I\u2019m in a wheelchair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">She\u2019s lying on her couch in Park City, Utah, wearing an Under Armour sweatshirt, compression socks, and several bandages. She\u2019s not wearing any makeup except for eyelash extensions, a lingering beauty hallmark of a high-profile woman who needs to be camera-ready at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">She both does and doesn\u2019t know how it happened. Physically, she felt good, despite tearing the ACL in her left knee nine days prior during a World Cup race at Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps. Mentally, she felt <em>great:<\/em> \u201cI was in the exact mental state that I wanted to be in. I was ready to go,\u201d she says. In fact, she had a whole strategy planned out: On that early section of the course, there was a small lip before a gate. Usually, turning over it, you\u2019re pushed to the left. \u201cIt\u2019s called the drift,\u201d Vonn says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iJvQnD cOWUYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-fnduJP iaVSwI asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kFnjvc eKnjjD responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jKunQM gjCCFj AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-bpPcvW kSFnyR caption AssetEmbedCaption-eZIMNW gMgneI asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseText-fEwdHD CaptionText-cQpRdU fayyTV hbiMYj caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Vonn at a training session on February 6, 2026, during the Milano Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseText-fEwdHD CaptionCredit-cUgOGk hpNsbY hRFzlA caption__credit\">Getty Images.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/lindsey-vonn-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn has this recurring dream. She\u2019s back at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics in February, racing down the famous course of Olimpia delle Tofane just as she has so many times before: Across her record-shattering two-decade career, Vonn\u2019s had 12 wins on that hill. She tucks and turns and carves going full speed\u2014which, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7248,4451,13302,13620],"class_list":{"0":"post-230849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-lindsey-vonn","9":"tag-olympics","10":"tag-skiing","11":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}