US ski star Lindsey Vonn is back in training just weeks after a serious crash at the Winter Olympics. The 41-year-old posted a video to Instagram only 25 days after her fall during the downhill race in Cortina d’Ampezzo. “Definitely tough times, but still grateful… and continuing to work hard. The only goal is to get healthy again. One day at a time,” Vonn wrote alongside the clip.
The video shows the 2010 Olympic champion working on her thighs, shoulders, abdomen, back, and arms. Throughout the workout, Vonn’s severely injured left leg receives treatment. At the end of the clip, she even manages to stand up from her wheelchair.
Vonn Aims to Transition to Crutches Soon
Vonn sustained a complex tibia fracture in her crash during the Cortina downhill race. Following her hospital stay in Italy, she was transported to the airport by ambulance and flown back to the United States.
The veteran racer hopes to transition from a wheelchair to crutches in the coming weeks. “It will take about a year for all the bones to heal,” she recently stated. She will then decide whether to have the metal components removed completely. A final surgery to repair her ACL is planned after that.
Vonn originally tore her ACL in a World Cup race leading up to the Winter Olympics. Despite the injury, the two-time World Champion competed in Italy.
