Lindsey Vonn Breaks Silence After 2026 Winter Olympics Ski Crash: ‘Dared To Dream’

Lindsey Vonn is breaking her silence following her terrifying crash during the women’s downhill final at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The 41-year-old Olympic gold medalist shared a picture from her crash on Instagram on Feb. 9 alongside a lengthy statement where she expressed how she was feeling one day after the incident. “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” she wrote. “It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tale, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches,” she wrote before breaking down what caused the crash, clarifying it had nothing to do with a previous injury sustained during a race week before. “I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever,” she wrote. Lindsey then gave an update on her injury revealing she has a “complex tibia fracture” that is currently stable but will “require multiple surgeries to fix properly.” Lindsey’s statement comes one day after she crashed 13 seconds into the downhill ski final. The 41-year-old had come out of retirement to compete in the 2026 Winter Games.