Five months after her 2026 Winter Olympics crash, Lindsey Vonn said walking is still hard and she has not returned to meaningful gym training because her ankle remains broken.
Vonn told People at the ESPYs that the downhill-final fall nearly cost her leg and left her with a complex tibia fracture, a fractured fibular head and a tibial plateau injury.
The recovery has been slow: she said she spent nearly 3 1/2 months unable to walk unassisted after long stretches in a wheelchair and on crutches.
The injury came 13 seconds into the women's downhill final, a week after Vonn had already competed with what she later said was a completely ruptured ACL.
Vonn, 41, posted this week that she still faces a very long road ahead, extending the aftermath of one of the Games' most memorable crashes.