Milano Cortina Downhill, Will Lindsey do it?

[haraldo]

Now it is soon happening, the Women´s downhill in Milano Cortina Olympics
Alpine Skiing Women's Downhill - Start List

There is tough and there is "Lindsey Vonn TOUGH", this is gonna be exciting
Lindsey Vonn won the Olympic gold in Vancouver downhill 16 years ago, can she repeat it now?

As a Norewgian, of course I hope for Kajsa Vickhoff Lie

 

[adk highlander]

No she didn't but a Breeze blew in and took it for the US!

 

[TLS Guy]

No she didn't but a Breeze blew in and took it for the US!

So she crashes out, after trying to ski with a complete ACL rupture, which means she had a totally unstable knee. What she did was totally reckless.
I am sure that their are surgeons now, and will be down the line, trying to figure out how to fix an impossibly difficult situation. I bet if she is crippled after this she will blame the surgeons. I have great difficulty having sympathy for a situation like this.

 

[haraldo]

@TLS Guy Did you really watch what happened? Disagree with you 100%
What happened had nothing to do about the knee !!!!!!!

Just extremely unlucky, hooking the right shoulder onto a gate and forcing a rotation that was unrecoverable, this could have happened to anyone. I think Vonn should get some great credit for this!

Italian Sofia Goggia won a silver medal in the 2022 olympics downhill with a torn ACL, exactly same injury as Vonn had here. I reckon: If you don´t like to take risk, I guess you have nothing to do here in these competitions

It was very very rough to see

 

[TLS Guy]

@TLS Guy Did you really watch what happened? Disagree with you 100%
What happened had nothing to do about the knee !!!!!!!

Just extremely unlucky, hooking the right shoulder onto a gate and forcing a rotation that was unrecoverable, this could have happened to anyone. I think Vonn should get some great credit for this!

Italian Sofia Goggia won a silver medal in the 2022 olympics downhill with a torn ACL, exactly same injury as Vonn had here. I reckon: If you don´t like to take risk, I guess you have nothing to do here in these competitions

It was very very rough to see

I doubt any of her physicians said it was a good idea to ski, with a ruptured ACL. I would bet this has compounded her problem now.

 

[haraldo]

I doubt any of her physicians said it was a good idea to ski, with a ruptured ACL. I would bet this has compounded her problem now.

That is another story ... but others have done that before her ....
She already has one titanium knee!

The whole US alpine Olympic team supporting Vonn ....

 

[Dude#1279435]

I hope it isn't worse because I believe I heard she went head first once she landed. Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[haraldo]

Just heard in the knews tha Vonn has been going through an operation for a broken leg
But in a good condition!

What looked really bad to me had nothing to do with the knee IMHO, but that the skis were not releasing....

Vonn has surgery on broken leg

 

[Dude#1279435]

Just heard in the knews tha Vonn has been going through an operation for a broken leg
What looked really bad to me had nothing to do with the knee IMHO, but that the skis were not releasing....

MSN

Looked to me like she hit the flag.

 

[adk highlander]

I doubt any of her physicians said it was a good idea to ski, with a ruptured ACL. I would bet this has compounded her problem now.

I have had friends ski for years with no ACL at a near professional level. You are out of your league of knowledge of what is possible here.

 

[haraldo]

Looked to me like she hit the flag.

Yes, with the rignt shoulder, experts over here claim that was what caiused the unrecoverable rotation
I think Vonn should get a medal for courage!

 

[haraldo]

I hope it isn't worse because I believe I heard she went head first once she landed. Hopefully I'm wrong.

From what I hear she is doing ok, but that stumbling around without the skis releasing ..... looked horrendous
Bindings set extremely tight

 

[TLS Guy]

Just heard in the knews tha Vonn has been going through an operation for a broken leg
But in a good condition!

What looked really bad to me had nothing to do with the knee IMHO, but that the skis were not releasing....

Vonn has surgery on broken leg

Well you are wrong. Lindsey Vonn had a hemi titanium knee replacement on her right knee. This matters as the joints have proprio receptors, and the most important are in the joint. So her brain would not be receiving all data required for proper balance in a situation like fast downhill skiing in particular. She has a fresh total unrepaired ACL rupture in her left knee. So that knee by definition is unstable. That means her brain is not receiving all the information required for corrective action. This was a predictable and preventable disaster, which will have negative effects on the rest of her life.

 

[haraldo]

What is wrong in that post?

Again ... the crash had nothing to do about the knees..... it has nothing to do about balance.... she had a too tight line and her right shoulder hit the flag, pushing her into an unrecoverable rotation....

I think, rather than calling people idiots, we should applaud people who try to push the limits