The countdown to 2030 has begun. Lindsey Vonn is upright and thinking about her athletic future.
Lindsey Vonn has finally left the hospital. After eight surgeries and six weeks in a wheelchair, she appeared in public for the first time on crutches in New York, just days before the Met Gala hosted by Jeff Bezos on Monday night. Despite suffering a triple fracture at the Milan-Cortina Games, where she attempted to compete despite tearing her ACL a week earlier, the 41-year-old American legend has been through hell but still can’t definitively say stop.
“I don’t want to make a decision (…) I could still be competitive at 45,” Vonn told the Associated Press. She is still in survival mode and wants to get through this phase to reflect on her life, “assess what I’ve achieved and what could have been done differently, in order to make decisions more informedly.” Vonn even looks ahead to the 2030 Games in France. She emphasizes having at least a year and a half to regain her form and feeling “extreme, incomparable pain, unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”
