Lindsey Vonn crash

re airlifting her, she broke her leg bad enough it needed surgery.

if you're healthy they let you ski down.

i think it's excessive cost but i think there are health reasons why some need an airlift and not a toboggan ride. part of it would be protecting the course from the effects of a bunch of people skiing down the course with a sled.

as it happened the best finish after vonn left was bronze and the course seemed slower.

Dodger? Hardly. Look at the details. She has never tested positive for anything despite numerous tests. They determined there was a very low chance of any gaming on her part or that she had been taking any performance enhancing drugs. She basically did a poor job managing their website to announce when she would be away.

That sucks. At age 41, I totally get it though... her last chance. And even though she got wrecked, she built her brand even further. Millions of people who never heard of Lindsey Vonn just became Lindsey Vonn fans.

But in the end, there is only one Dave Wottle!

Why didn't the bindings release?

I just read these skiers reach 95mph.

Average Max speed of fast amateur downhill skiers is 40MPH

That is insane.

I was going to ask the same question. Her legs buckled in and it appeared she fractured by the angle but she would have been fine if the skis released.

Here's the crash, in case you haven't seen it:

https://youtu.be/-ZCOGJW962M?si=zNnzdx0PM7NJo34q

Hope she's OK.

I was going to ask the same question. Her legs buckled in and it appeared she fractured by the angle but she would have been fine if the skis released.

Bindings settings. Pros set the bindings pretty tight because they don’t want to come unclipped. The number of Gs they pull on the turns and some of the jumps in the course (traveling 150’ or more in the air at 70 mph or more) would release on your average Joe’s settings.

Poor take. She caught a gate being aggresive. Nothing to do with an acl. Shes also the best in the world right now...so no not a real replacement.

Other than that great take!

We are at a point where most of the best retire with at least one catastrophic leg Injury. Downhill needs to be reined in a bit. They are just barely in control.

It will never be reined in. The danger is part of the deal.

Her right pole caught a gate. Great series of photos captured it.

nbcnewyork.com

A look at the moments leading up to Lindsey Vonn's crash in downhill event

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The legendary Team USA alpine skier broke her leg Sunday after crashing just seconds into her run in the women's downhill event.

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She finished 3rd in the second test run 2 days prior to the final. Clearly, she was still able to ski well, as she beat both the 2nd and 3rd place skiers Aicher and Goggia (they were 5th and 6th in the test run, while Johnson won both this test run and the final). She clipped a gate mid-air; nothing you can do about that. Whether instability led to that clip is unclear, so it's not really known whether the ACL was a factor in this crash. All we know is that even with the ACL tear, she was skiing very well, better than the silver and bronze medallist in the lead-up, and then she clipped a gate in the air during the final, leading to the crash.

Oh, and the alternate would have been Keely Cashman. Vonn beat her handily in the first test run (Vonn 11th, Cashman 17th) 3 days out from the final. Why in the world would it make sense to give Vonn's spot to Cashman if she's skiing better than Cashman and even podiuming in one of the two test runs despite the ACL?

Absolutely ignorant, terrible take, and anyone upvoting this is completely clueless on skiing. In the two test runs (3 days out and 2 days out, skiing on the same torn ACL), she destroyed the alternate in first test run and then podiumed in the second (alternate didn't bother to take this test run), beating the eventual silver and bronze medallist. She went for it and tried to take a very tight line. This level of aggressive skiing is what it takes to win a medal, and she got caught on the wrong side of it this time.

She is likely crippled for life. She'll walk, but walk never normally again. Bunny slopes are her future.

She was competing at a high level and qualified for the Olympics on her own merit, so to call her a "washed" athlete is an embarrassingly stupid statement that makes anything else you say irrelevant. just another bitter troll.

This is patently false, as demonstrated by history. Let's look at a few recent examples:

You know Sophia Goggia who just got 3rd? I'm guessing probably not, because you don't know anything about skiing and probably didn't even watch the race. Anyway, she was 2nd (since you're not very smart, I'll point out that 2nd is better than 3rd) in the same event in the 2022 olympics only 3 weeks after a partial ACL tear.

Ever heard of Anna Segal? She was 4th place in the 2014 olympic slopestyle event just 4 weeks after tearing her ACL.

Having a torn ACL obviously doesn't help, but as a biomedical engineer with a fair amount of orthopaedic knowledge, I'm very happy to tell you that you're an idiot. :)

Yup. I was a.pretty good skier as smart ass punk kid.

So why aren't the gates fully break away? Instead of springs use magnets. I can't believe they haven't thought of this before.