Lindsey Vonn Shares Photo Update From Hospital

The road to recovery continues for Lindsey Vonn, the superstar ski racer who, after leading an increasingly successful return to competition, crashed and broke her leg in the Olympic downhill.

In a recent Instagram post, she shared a message saying that she’d undergone her third surgery, alongside a photo of her sitting in a hospital bed.

“Success today has a completely different meaning than it did a few days ago,” she wrote. “I’m making progress and while it is slow, I know I’ll be ok.”

Vonn shared multiple photos from the hospital on Instagram. Tap or click below to see. Keep reading for more.

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Vonn said she felt thankful for the “incredible” medical staff, friends, and family who have been by her side, as well as the “outpouring of love and support from people around the world.”

She also turned to her American teammates, who, as the Winter Olympics have gotten underway, have started adding to Team USA’s medal total. 

In the same race that Vonn crashed, Breezy Johnson secured gold. Paula Moltzan and Jackie Wiles jointly earned bronze in the women’s team combined. And Ryan Cochran-Siegle sped to a second-place finish in the super-G, meaning he’ll come home with his second silver medal.

That’s not to mention the other American medals in other disciplines, like freestyle skiing and figure skating.

“Huge congrats to my teammates and all of the Team USA athletes who are out there inspiring me and giving me something to cheer for,” Vonn wrote at the end of her post.

Weeks ahead of Vonn’s race, she appeared poised to lock in another Olympic medal. 

The legendary skier, 41, had, after etching her name in the alpine racing history books with numerous wins, come out of retirement in 2024.

Vonn’s first season back on snow ended with a second-place super-G finish in Sun Valley, Idaho. Then, this winter, she seemed to kick into another gear, claiming five downhill World Cup podium finishes, two of which were wins. This was vintage Vonn.

But soon before the Winter Olympics, she ruptured her ACL, calling her momentum into question. Vonn opted to race anyway.

Following the downhill crash, which came after she clipped a gate on the course, she dispelled the idea that her ACL—or the lack thereof—played a role.

“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,” she wrote. “My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever.” 

“While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets,” Vonn added.

She also revealed that she’d suffered a “complex tibia fracture” that was stable but required multiple surgeries.