Lindsey Vonn showed his commitment to recovering from a serious leg injury at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Just six weeks after her shocking accident at the Milan and Cortina Games, Vonn, 41, posted an Instagram video on Saturday, March 21, to reveal that she is already doing full sets in the gym.
“First set of post-surgery… slowly getting there,” Vonn captioned the Instagram post.
Vonn’s fans praised her fitness, incl Chelsea Handler he replied, “INCENTIVE MONEY, UNBELIEVABLE, BEAST.”
The novice skater went to the Olympics in Italy after tearing her ACL in a World Cup race in Switzerland on January 30. Vonn struggled to overcome her pain at the Olympics to compete in Milan and Cortina.
Tragedy struck just 13 seconds into Vonn’s women’s downhill event on February 8 when she crashed and had to be airlifted to hospital for emergency surgery to fix a broken tibia.
Vonn underwent further procedures in Italy and when he returned home to the US, he revealed that he nearly had his leg amputated due to severe injuries sustained in his crash.
“Dr. Tom Hackett he saved my leg,” Vonn explained in a social media post at the time. He did what’s called a fasciotomy, where he opened both sides of my leg and opened it up so I could talk, let it breathe, and he saved me.”
When Vonn began rehab in early March, she admitted her disappointment at falling from the top of the skiing world rankings.
“Yes… I’ve had the red leader from the first race of the season until now, but there’s a good chance that tomorrow will be my last day as #1,” Vonn wrote on Instagram on March 6. “At the beginning of the season no one would have believed that I would be anywhere near this position. And I bet people would laugh if it was raised. But winning the title was my painful goal.”
Vonn said he doesn’t like to brag about his accomplishments, but felt it was important to pay attention to his success after nearly six years of retirement.
“I was in the field for every race going down, including 2 wins,” he said. “I’m determined to get back to #1 in the world after 6 years of retirement with a partial knee replacement and that alone was an amazing achievement that I will never forget. Even though in a few days no one will remember that I almost won the season title, I will. I didn’t want to win the title to prove anything to anyone. I did it because I knew I could finish and I wanted to fight for it until I got the title.”
Amid speculation that she would once again leave the sport, Vonn tweeted on March 14, “Who said I’m retiring?”
The fan responded that “the ego is too strong for this one” before encouraging her to “put her feet up and do it.”
“Think you’re mistaking yourself for happiness,” Vonn corrected them. “I’ve said it my whole life; I love skiing. I’ll put my feet up when I’m ready and I’m ready, thank you.”
