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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Holly Bishop

Lindsey Vonn returns home to US following horror crash as skiing legend opens up on ‘severe’ injury

Lindsey Vonn has returned home to the United States following her horror crash at the Winter Olympics.

On 8 February, the 41-year-old American athlete suffered a leg fracture after crashing hard in the downhill event. She decided to compete despite having ruptured her left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in a crash in a World Cup race in Crans-Montana, Switzerland last month.

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