Lindsey Vonn’s coach and New England Patriots vast receiver Stefon Diggs are assured that the American snowboarding nice can compete on the Milano Cortina Olympics with a ruptured ACL in her left knee.
Vonn, 41, is ready to strive her luck within the ladies’s downhill race on Sunday
“I am fairly assured that she will nonetheless pull off this dream,” Vonn’s head coach Chris Knight advised The Related Press on Wednesday. “I’ve bought no doubts in my thoughts that that is going to be OK.”
Knight’s feedback got here in the future after Vonn stated that she’s not interested by discussing surgical procedure in the intervening time.
“It is probably not on my radar display proper now. The Olympics are the one factor that I am fascinated with,” she stated. “Every single day my knee’s gotten higher. And every single day we’re discussing with a full medical crew, docs, physios, everybody, to verify we’re doing all the things to verify I’m making sensible and protected selections.”
Diggs is aware of a factor or two a couple of torn ACL. His lone season with the Houston Texans in 2024 was minimize brief by the identical damage.
“Prayers to her. I hope the surgical procedure does go effectively when she does have it,” Diggs stated Wednesday of Vonn. “Anyone who has torn an ACL, it is sort of a bizarre damage. You possibly can run after about two weeks when the swelling goes down. … So long as she does not need to (decelerate), she must be high-quality.”
Like Vonn, Diggs has an enormous day forward on Sunday. Diggs and the Patriots will face the Seattle Seahawks in Tremendous Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif.
As for Vonn, she should full no less than one official coaching run to participate within the Sunday downhill. Vonn isn’t any stranger to the mountain. She collected 12 of her 84 World Cup victories there, probably the most of any skier.
Vonn earned gold (downhill) and bronze (Tremendous-G) medals on the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and a bronze medal within the downhill on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games.
Vonn retired after the 2019 world championships because of accidents. She subsequently acquired a partial substitute of her proper knee and launched a comeback late in 2024 with the Olympics in her sights.
She has received the downhill twice this winter and leads the World Cup standings within the self-discipline and was thought of a favourite to win the gold medal within the occasion in Italy.
–Subject Stage Media
