Lindsey Vonn is on the road to recovery after her devastating crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
In an Instagram post on Thursday, March 5, the Olympian, 41, shared footage of herself carefully doing some rehabilitation and upper body workouts after she sustained a complex tibia fracture during the Milan Cortina Games on Feb. 8.
The video, set to “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive” by Travis Tritt, showed Vonn in a red workout set doing some weightlifting and core exercises, as well as standing up out of her wheelchair to put a little bit of weight on her bandaged leg.
“Definitely some hard times but still thankful… still working hard,” she captioned the video. “The only goal is to get healthy. One day at a time.”
Vonn has shared a series of updates in the month since her crash during the Olympics, where she clipped a gate and fell just 13 seconds into her run during the women’s downhill event. She was then airlifted to Ca’ Foncello hospital in Trevizo, Italy, where she underwent four different surgeries to save her leg.
Several weeks after the Olympics, Vonn took to social media to share that her leg nearly had to be amputated following the crash, as she was diagnosed with compartment syndrome.
“After two weeks, I finally made it out of the hospital. It has been quite the journey and by far the most extreme and painful and challenging injury I’ve ever faced in my entire life times one hundred,” she said in a lengthy video update, sharing that her tibia “was in pieces.”
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Lindsey Vonn trains for the downhill skiing event on Feb. 7.Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty
Compartment syndrome is a painful buildup of pressure around your muscles that restricts the flow of blood, fresh oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and nerves, according to Cleveland Clinic, The medical condition is extremely painful, Vonn said in her video.
In the Instagram update, Vonn went on to praise her longtime doctor Tom Hackett.
“Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg. He saved my leg from being amputated,” she said, as she became emotional. “He did what’s called a fasciotomy, where he cut open both sides of my leg and kind of filleted it open… let it breath and, um, he saved me.”
The three-time Olympic medalist also shared an update in which she reflected on her accident and the difficult recovery process,.
“Had a pretty hard day yesterday, everything just really hit me hard and I broke down. I know there will be a lot of days like this… the internal mental battle has just begun but moments like this help me so much,” she said in an Instagram video. “…One day at a time.”
Compartment syndrome is a painful buildup of pressure around your muscles that restricts the flow of blood, fresh oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and nerves, according to Cleveland Clinic, The medical condition is extremely painful, Vonn said in her video.
In the Instagram update, Vonn went on to praise her longtime doctor Tom Hackett.
“Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg. He saved my leg from being amputated,” she said, as she became emotional. “He did what’s called a fasciotomy, where he cut open both sides of my leg and kind of filleted it open… let it breath and, um, he saved me.”
The three-time Olympic medalist also shared an update in which she reflected on her accident and the difficult recovery process,.
“Had a pretty hard day yesterday, everything just really hit me hard and I broke down. I know there will be a lot of days like this… the internal mental battle has just begun but moments like this help me so much,” she said in an Instagram video. “…One day at a time.”
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