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Lindsey Vonn's Father Tells AP Her Olympic Crash Marks 'the End of Her Career' if He Has Any Say
Alan Kildow confirmed Lindsey Vonn, 41, will end her ski racing career after breaking her left leg and undergoing surgery at the Milan–Cortina Olympics.
- On Feb 9, 2026, Alan Kildow, Lindsey Vonn's father, said `this is the end of her career` after her crash in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
- Having torn an ACL nine days earlier, Vonn raced the downhill after two downhill training runs and been cleared by high-level physicians, Kildow said.
- Kildow and Vonn's family, present at the hospital, said she underwent surgery on her left leg, is in stable condition, and he slept in her hospital room overnight, with family present at all times.
- Amid silence after the crash, Kildow emphasized `First, the shock and the horror of the whole thing, seeing a crash like that` and said Vonn 'knows physical pain' and is handling it well.
- Vonn's recent season showed she finished on the podium in seven of eight World Cup races, ranking second behind Mikaela Shiffrin's 108 wins, after returning from retirement and a partial knee replacement.
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Much has been written about Lindsey Vonn's serious fall and subsequent serious injury since Sunday's unfortunate downhill for the American at the Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo. But after the 41-year-old's first response on social media, after undergoing two surgeries on her broken leg, her father Alan Kildow briefly spoke out (again), hoping that his daughter's latest accident finally ended her rich sporting career.
Curtain D'ampezzo., Alan Kildow, Lindsey Vonn's father, anticipated that the U.S. superstar will no longer compete if he has any influence on his decision, and that he will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking a leg on the descent on the weekend.
Should Lindsey Vonn retire after Olympic crash? Her father makes his opinion known
Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy — Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her left leg in the downhill over the weekend.
Lindsey Vonn undergoes surgery after Olympic downhill crash as father says it marks ‘end of her career’
Lindsey Vonn is being treated at a hospital in Treviso following a crash in the Olympic downhill on Sunday. The 41-year-old, who was racing on a torn ACL in her left knee, said she “sustained a complex tibia fracture” that will “require multiple surgeries to fix properly” in an Instagram post late Monday afternoon. “While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets,” Vonn wrote in…
Vonn's father wants her to retire after her Winter Olympics crash
Lindsey Vonn's father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her left leg in the downhill over the weekend.
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