Lindsey Vonn, ACL and American skier
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Vonn is skiing cautiously at the Olympics a week after tearing her ACL.
Vonn had, only eight days prior, suffered a tear to her left ACL (a ligament that helps stabilize the knee), and though she noted that this injury and previous ones didn’t cause the accident, many now see her performance so soon after it as “inspirational,” with Arnold Schwarzenegger saying on his own Instagram, in part:
“This ageism stuff is getting really old,” the Olympian, 41, said
After multiple ACL tears threatened to end her Olympic debut, U.S. freeskier Rell Harwood is competing in Milan, determined to savor every moment of the experience.