Lindsey Vonn is still struggling to stand on her own as she recovers from a gruesome injury that almost cost the Olympic skier her left leg — but she’s still in the gym working out.
The gold medalist, 41, posted a video via her Instagram Story on Monday, March 9, showing her seated and pulling a rope on a machine in the gym while her leg, still in a cast, remained elevated.
“Finding ways to work,” Vonn, wrote over the video.
Vonn underwent multiple leg surgeries after she crashed just seconds into her run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on February 8. She had been skiing on a torn ACL. Vonn was airlifted off the course and did not return home until March 1.
She shared an update with fans on February 23, where she revealed that the injury was even worse than it looked.
“Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg,” Vonn said. “He saved my leg from being amputated. He did what’s called a fasciotomy, where he cut open both sides of my leg and kind of filleted it open so to speak, let it breathe, and he saved me.”
She continued, “I always talk about [how] everything happens for a reason, but if I hadn’t torn my ACL, which I would have torn anyway with this crash, if I hadn’t done that, Tom wouldn’t have been there. He wouldn’t have been able to save my leg, so I feel very lucky and grateful for him, for the six hour surgery he put in on Wednesday to rebuild it, which went amazingly well.”
Vonn has kept her followers updated on her progress since then, uploading another workout video on Friday, March 6, that showed how far she still has to go in her rehab. In the video, she tried to stand on her own but struggled through obvious pain.
“Definitely some hard times but still thankful… still working hard,” she captioned the post. “The only goal is to get healthy. One day at a time. #icandothis.”
That same day, she opened up about losing her spot as No. 1 in the world and being unable to reclaim it amid her injury.
“Well… I’ve had the red leader bib from the first race of the season until now, but in all likelihood tomorrow will be my last day as #1,” she wrote via Instagram. “At the beginning of the season no one would have ever believed I would be even close to this position. And I bet people would have laughed if it was even suggested. But winning the title was my goal… and I came painfully close to achieving it.”
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