Lindsey Vonn's dad reacts to ski star's terrifying Olympic crash

Lindsey Vonn’s dada said Monday helium hopes the horrific clang that landed the Olympic fable successful the infirmary astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Games volition people "the extremity of her career."

Alan Kildow told The Associated Press helium wasn’t definite whether helium really has immoderate accidental successful the matter. Vonn broke her limb during the last tally of the alpine skis women’s downhill event. She crashed successful the archetypal assemblage and needed to beryllium airlifted disconnected the mountain.

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United States' Lindsey Vonn poses with her vocation medals with her begetter Alan Kildow, successful the decorativeness country aft the women's downhill race, astatine the alpine skis World Championships successful Are, Sweden, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019.  (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)

"She’s 41 years aged and this is the extremity of her career," helium told The Associated Press. "There volition beryllium nary much skis races for Lindsey Vonn, arsenic agelong arsenic I person thing to accidental astir it."

Kildow didn’t divulge immoderate details astir the injuries but mentioned her affectional state.

"She’s a precise beardown individual," Kildow said. "She knows carnal symptom and she understands the circumstances that she finds herself in. And she’s capable to grip it. Better than I expected. She’s a very, precise beardown person. And truthful I deliberation she’s handling it existent well."

Vonn’s household was connected manus to ticker her effort to propulsion disconnected a occurrence – triumph an Olympic medal successful 1 of the fastest sports the Games has to connection each portion dealing with a ruptured ACL.

United States' Lindsey Vonn's begetter Alan Kildow is interviewed up of an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andrew Dampf)

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But the hopeful quality of the time rapidly turned to somber feelings.

"First, the daze and the fearfulness of the full thing, seeing a clang similar that," Kildow said of what helium felt watching the country unfold. "It tin beryllium melodramatic and traumatic. You’re conscionable horrified astatine what those kinds of impacts have.

"You tin spell into a daze an affectional intelligence shock," helium added. "Because it’s hard to conscionable judge what’s happened. But she’s good cared for. … And the USOC and the U.S. Ski squad person a very, precise top-notch doc with her and she is being precise good cared for present successful Italy."

Kildow enactment the origin of the clang much connected Vonn trying to propulsion herself to the borderline than the ACL.

Vonn is recovering successful a infirmary successful Treviso. She holds the grounds of 12 World Cup victories successful Cortina, Italy, and didn’t look similar she missed a bushed erstwhile she returned to the circuit past twelvemonth pursuing a six-year absence.

United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted distant aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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The adjacent halt for Vonn volition beryllium home, according to Kildow. She volition not beryllium backmost astatine immoderate Olympic events to cheer connected her teammates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.