American skier Lindsey Vonn, who suffered a serious injury to her left leg in the downhill competition at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, said in a statement that it was a "compound fracture of the tibia, which is currently stable, but will require more surgery for the bone to heal properly."
Vaughn made the announcement on her Instagram account, to inform her many fans about her condition and injury.
"Although nothing yesterday ended the way I had hoped, and despite the extreme physical pain I feel, I have no regrets whatsoever," Vaughn wrote.
Nine days before her fall at the start of the Olympic downhill race, Vonn tore the cruciate ligament in her left knee. While such injuries usually require months of rehabilitation, some skiers manage to compete despite them. Vonn had no trouble enduring two intense downhill training sessions ahead of the Games.
"My ligament damage and previous injuries have absolutely nothing to do with my crash in the race," Vonn concluded on Instagram.
Her father had told the media a few hours earlier that he hoped Lindsay had now definitively ended her skiing career.
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