Lindsey Vonn reveals she can return home after four surgeries to address Olympic crash injury

Fox News senior medical analyst Marc Siegel reacts to skier Lindsey Vonn’s crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics while competing with a ruptured ACL as she recovers from surgery on a fractured left leg from her downhill final in Cortina.

U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn said she can finally return home after multiple surgeries. 

She is six days removed from an infamous crash just 13 seconds into her run at the women's downhill in Milan Cortina. She has had four surgeries while pent-up in an Italian hospital. 

"Surgery went well today! Thankfully, I will be able to finally go back to the US," Vonn wrote in an Instagram post. 

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The United States' Lindsey Vonn arrives at the finish area of an alpine skiing women's downhill training at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 7, 2026.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Vonn held back from revealing certain details about her condition.

"Once I’m back I will give you more updates and info about my injury," she added. 

"I have been reading a lot of messages and comments saying that what has happened to me makes them sad. Please, don’t be sad."

Vonn became one of the top stories of the Winter Games, making her return to the world stage after a temporary retirement. She was competing just days after an ACL rupture. When the crash happened, it sent countless American fans into shock and sent Vonn to the operating table for extensive medical procedures.

"When I think back on my crash, I didn’t stand in the starting gate unaware of the potential consequences. I knew what I was doing. I chose to take a risk. Every skier in that starting gate took the same risk. Because even if you are the strongest person in the world, the