Lindsey Vonn
The Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, resulting in ski racing career victory stirring often terrible fall, two torn knee ligaments in a tumbling accident on Tuesday and will need reconstructive surgery. Vonn fell in the super-G alpine World Cup races a year, and the race two days before the planned start of the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Vonn, who won the overall World Cup title four times, and won the World Cup more than any other American, the defending Olympic downhill gold medalist. The right knee bent awkwardly as he landed a jump in front somersault down the hill.
The U.S. Ski Team Medical Director Kyle Wilkens, Vonn tore the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his right knee, and sustained a tibial fracture. The team announced that it would spend the rest of this season to miss, but is expected to return to compete in the 2.013-14 World Cup season, which starts in October, and the 2014 Olympic Games.
Reconstructive knee surgery recovery times vary greatly, but a large number of ski racers multiple ligament tears back on the slopes in less than a year - although with mixed results.
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