Winter Olympics reside updates: 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn to compete with torn ACL earlier than Aussies in cross-country snowboarding

Nina Ortlieb from Austria has additionally crashed within the girls’s downhill snowboarding and shall be a DNF, together with Lindsey Vonn.

Thankfully Ortlieb’s ache appeared principally emotionally, as she was in a position to get herself off the monitor and appeared dissatisfied with herself.

It has been some powerful racing right this moment. American Breezy Johnson stays within the lead, adopted by Germany’s Emma Aicher.

I’m on the fan zone in Livigno the place everybody was watching what they hoped can be the story of the Video games transpire in entrance of their eyes.

As quickly as Lindsey Vonn misplaced management there was a pointy consumption of breath and arms have been raised to observers heads and mouths.

The silence was deafening.

It was all the time a protracted shot.

It was all the time a threat.

However the scenes that we’re observing listed below are completely heartbreaking for Vonn.

It may nonetheless be the story of the Video games that we’re seeing – it is simply not the one individuals have been hoping to witness.

There’s an eerie silence with simply the sound of the helicopter in Cortina with shock and devastation taken maintain of everybody on the girls’s downhill snowboarding.

Lindsey Vonn had an enormous crash and appeared to be in an enormous quantity of ache. She’ll be lifted from the course with the helicopter simply arriving.

Lindsey Vonn has had an enormous crash throughout her run within the downhill snowboarding.

An enormous silence has taken the group. That appeared actually regarding — let’s hope she’s OK.

The 41-year-old was racing with a torn ACL. The occasion is on maintain whereas they assist Vonn.

The medical staff is making an attempt to get her off the course however she appears to be like in vital ache. Everybody within the crowd appears to be like devastated.

Properly, watching this girls’s downhill snowboarding, I get very jealous of my good colleague Simon Smale over in Italy. He’ll have a narrative on Lindsey Vonn later, so preserve a watch out for that.

The Italian-strong crowd is cheering loudly for its personal however can be conserving the vibes very excessive. Because the skiers cross the road, there are many cheers and music taking part in.

Appears nice, sounds nice and wow, these girls are spectacular.

Vonn lower than 5 minutes away! Her fellow American Breezy Johnson is at the moment within the lead with a time of 1:36.10.

Me: Tries to get out of labor if a papercut is unhealthy sufficient.

Lindsey Vonn: About to compete within the Winter Olympics one week after rupturing her ACL.

Olympians are constructed in another way. The 41-year-old — who’s essentially the most profitable ski racer of all time — is about to be in motion in her sixth Olympic Video games in Milano Cortina.

And the snow? Trying incredible (based on my eyesight off the TV and the printed).

In a prolonged Instagram put up, Australian alpine ski racer Greta Small has stated she is heartbroken to not be competing at Milano Cortina.

The alpine contingent wasn’t revealed when the rest of the 53-strong Australian staff was named in late January.

Two athletes appealed their non-selection for one spot to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which is predicated in Switzerland; one being Small, the opposite unnamed.

That was resolved in the identical month with the AOC not disclosing whether or not the appeals have been profitable.

Small stated she self-represented on the CAS, and not using a lawyer, and was unsuccessful. This implies she won’t be represented within the alpine velocity or staff occasions.

Learn her full put up right here:

Alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn has been making headlines this week because the 41-year-old is ready to ski the Olympic downhill race with a torn ACL.

Her occasion is reside from 9:30pm.

The celebrity’s comeback from retirement to compete on the Olympic Video games was already a formidable story.

But simply over per week in the past, she crashed throughout a race and tore her left anterior cruciate ligament. She introduced she would compete regardless.

My knee aches simply desirous about it.

The ladies’s parallel big slalom qualifying is the primary attraction on proper now. The lads are up subsequent. It is what you may discover on the primary broadcast.

However there’s additionally a great spot of curling happening.

Within the blended doubles spherical robin classes, Norway and Czechia are going through off, whereas Estonia is taking up South Korea.

Headlining day two — when it’s going to be the wee hours of tomorrow morning for us right here in Australia — is Tess Coady.

Coady caught Australia’s consideration when she landed on the rostrum on the 2022 Beijing Video games, taking the bronze within the snowboard slopestyle.

The 25-year-old from Melbourne additionally received a bronze medal in slopestyle on the 2021 Snowboard World Champs and a bronze medal in large air on the 2023 world championships.

So, a little bit of a expertise. She additionally has countless enthusiasm and power that makes her so pleasing to look at — and root for!

At 5:30am AEDT she’ll be in motion within the snowboard large air occasion, alongside fellow Aussies and Olympic debutants Meila Stalker and Ally Hickman.

There are seven medal occasions right this moment: alpine snowboarding, biathlon, cross-country nation snowboarding (three Aussies), determine skating, luge (an Aussie), snowboard (three Aussies) and velocity skating.

Then there’s additionally ski leaping, ice hockey and curling — not fairly on the medal levels but.

Proper now, it is the snowboard girls’s PGS qualification runs underway.