The Winter Olympics girls’s downhill alpine snowboarding last was delayed by round 20 minutes after Lindsey Vonn crashed throughout her run and wanted an airlift away.
Lindsey Vonn crashed out of the ladies’s downhill alpine snowboarding last and wanted an airlift off-piste (Picture: Getty) This text comprises affiliate hyperlinks, we’ll obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Be taught extra
Lindsey Vonn crashed in the course of the girls’s downhill alpine snowboarding last whereas racing with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee. Organisers needed to pause the occasion for round 20 minutes after the American went down in ache and was screaming in agony.
Vonn, 41, was the primary American lady to win a gold medal in downhill on the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The four-time world champion retired 9 years later however returned to the game simply over a 12 months in the past with {a partially} changed proper knee and accomplished two coaching runs earlier than the race.
The crash occurred early in her run after being the thirteenth skier to go down the Olimpia delle Tofane course in Cortina. 5-time Olympic skier Graham Bell was commentating on BBC Two on the time.
He stated: “Oh no, she’s gone; she has crashed. She did all the things she might; she has gone on the highest of the course, and the gang are surprised. She took all the dangers to get right here; she proved within the coaching run that she might get to the beginning gate.”
Cande Moreno of Andorra additionally crashed on the quickest and steepest a part of the course and held her knees earlier than receiving medical consideration. Her fall led to a different course maintain and required an airlift, which additional extended the ultimate.
Breezy Johnson of America was within the gold medal place on the time of that newest crash. Her time was simply 0.04 seconds faster than Emma Aicher, with Italy’s Sofia Goggia, who’s a buddy of Vonn, in line for bronze.
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