Cortina Olympic Games despite tearing her ACL. Here is when the 41-year-old will race over the next two weeks.

Lindsey Vonn has been in the news a lot over the past week — and for good reason. She’s gearing up for an unprecedented Olympic run at age 41 while navigating a torn ACL in her left knee, an injury she sustained during a World Cup event last week in Switzerland.

Most people probably couldn’t get away with skiing with an injured ACL, Dr. Alexis Colvin, a sports medicine surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital who has worked at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs,

American star Lindsey Vonn participated in an official Olympic training event for Women's downhill skiing, hitting the slopes at the Winter Games for the first time after rupturing her left ACL when she crashed in a World Cup race in the Alps.

Lindsey Vonn completed another successful downhill training run at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday after tearing the ACL in her left knee last week

Why did Lindsey Vonn unretire for the 2026 Winter Olympics? Here's why the legendary alpine skier is competing at the Milano Cortina Games.

Lindsey Vonn inspected the Olympic downhill course with other racers early Friday as she prepared to take part in the opening training session despite tearing the ACL in her left knee a week ago. The 41-year-old Vonn is planning to compete at the Milan Cortina Games with a large brace covering her injured knee.

U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn is hoping to cap her comeback to Alpine skiing with a gold medal at the Milan-Cortina Olympics despite suffering a ruptured ACL on Jan. 30.