American skiing legend Lindsey Vonn is “stable” and has undergone surgery on a leg fracture after crashing hard in the Winter Olympics downhill event, nine days after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Downhill is the 41-year-old’s speciality and she boasts an Olympic gold medal in the event, which she won at Vancouver 2010, but hopes of a victorious comeback six years on from retirement had been catastrophically hit by a serious knee injury suffered less than a fortnight out from the finals.
