Lindsey Vonn says “trip was well worth the fall” after fourth surgical procedure for damaged leg, set to return to U.S.

American skier Lindsey Vonn introduced Saturday that her newest surgical procedure was profitable, and that she has been cleared to return to the USA after breaking her left leg in a brutal crash final weekend throughout her opening downhill race on the Winter Olympics in Italy. 

“Surgical procedure properly properly right now!” the 41-year-old Vonn wrote on social media. This marks her fourth surgical procedure because the Feb. 8 crash. 

Vonn had stated Friday she would wish a minimum of two extra surgical procedures — the one Saturday and a second after she returns to the U.S. 

On Wednesday, Vonn disclosed she had already undergone three surgical procedures since experiencing the damage. She wrote Saturday that when she’s again within the U.S., she plans on giving “extra updates and data about my damage.” 

The Olympic veteran from Colorado additionally mirrored on her crash, saying, “I haven’t got regrets.” 

“The trip was well worth the fall. Once I shut my eyes at evening I haven’t got regrets and the love I’ve for snowboarding stays,” Vonn stated in her put up. “I’m nonetheless wanting ahead to the second once I can stand on the highest of the mountain as soon as extra. And I’ll.”

Vonn crashed simply seconds into the primary run of her Olympic downhill race. She was competing regardless of rupturing her left ACL in a unique crash throughout a World Cup race within the Swiss Alps final month.

“I used to be keen to threat and push and sacrifice for one thing I knew I used to be completely able to doing,” Vonn stated within the put up. “I’ll at all times take the chance of crashing whereas giving it my all, somewhat than not ski to my potential and have remorse.” 

The three-time Olympic medalist had come out of retirement to compete within the Milan Cortina Video games. After tearing her ACL, she had stated she felt assured she might nonetheless race with the assistance of a knee brace.

“Please, do not be unhappy,” Vonn stated. “Empathy, love and assist I welcome with an open coronary heart, however please not disappointment or sympathy. I hope as an alternative it offers you power to maintain preventing, as a result of that’s what I’m doing and that’s what I’ll proceed to do. At all times.”