It’s been nearly ten months since Lindsey Vonn sustained brutal injuries in a crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, and the skiing star revealed that her recovery is still very much ongoing.
The 42-year-old five-time Olympian hopped on social media to inform her followers that she had gone in for surgery.
For the ninth time.
LINDSEY VONN ALL SMILES AS SHE’S ABLE TO RETURN TO DUMPING OUT ACTUAL WORKOUT CONTENT AGAIN
“This will be my ninth surgery,” Vonn said in the video. ‘I’m doing this beforehand because I’m actually getting pretty nervous about it. On the day of, I’m going to be focused and rested and trying to get through it.”
Vonn explained that the reason for this surgery was to remove hardware that had been installed during previous procedures.
“Basically, what we’re doing is removing all of the plates and screws and just basically removing all the hardware to make room for the new ACL because I don’t have an ACL still because of all the plates; just couldn’t put it in,” she explained.
Back in February, she was competing on a torn ACL in her left leg that she injured just before the start of the games. She tried to compete in the Olympics, but crashed in the women’s downhill event and severely injured the same leg.
However, once she has that fresh ACL, she still has a long road ahead of her.
“So I’ve been waiting all these nine months so my bones could heal and we could fix the ACL, and my bones healed, which is great news,” she said. “But obviously now I have the ACL, and that means another six-to-nine months.”
Fortunately, Vonn posted on her Instagram story that the surgery went well.
She also showed off a big with the hardware that used to be in her left leg captioned, “Got all this s–t out of my leg.”