<br><br><div> <p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph">For many, who <strong>Lindsey Vonn </strong>will accept the challenge of competing in the <strong>Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics </strong>It was truly crazy and, for others, it was another example of the love that <strong>Vail Skier </strong>for a sport that gave everything. The instability of the knees, the right one reconstructed with titanium, and the left one supported by a knee brace inside which there was a meniscus rupture, bone edema and meniscus rupture after the fall suffered ten days ago in Crans Montana, could not be a good omen, but the results achieved in previous training sessions opened a door to optimism.</p> <span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-md irr-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit irr"> </span></span><span class="content-html"><span class="intext-md hidden-xs hidden-md"> </span></span></span><span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-xs roba-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit roba"> </span></span></span><p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph">Doctors said the development of muscle mass in the knee since the serious fall of <strong>Crans Montana</strong> a week ago he allowed its staging in <strong>Curtain</strong>. She was convinced and had no doubts and, behind closed doors, her coach, the Norwegian <strong>Aksel Lund Svindal</strong>A great skier experienced in a thousand battles, he assured that his excellent student was ready.</p> <span class="dynamic-ad-module "/><span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-xs irr-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit irr"> </span></span><span class="content-html"><span class="intext-xs hidden-xs hidden-md"/></span></span><p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph">The third best time achieved yesterday in training, due to the fact that you should always question the times achieved in alpine skiing in these preparatory sessions, placed her among the candidates for medals, and seeing how she physically punished herself in the gym too.</p> <span class="dynamic-ad-module "/><span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-xs roba-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit roba"> </span></span></span><p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph">Precisely, after seeing how he prepared himself in the gym, how he worked hard and his performance in training, there were also those who questioned whether he had really destroyed his C-shaped knee.<strong>run Montana </strong>as was said, and that he probably had a strain. The only certainty was his words and with them today he sought his <strong>second Olympic gold in downhill after 2010.</strong></p> <span class="dynamic-ad-module "/><span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-xs roba-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit roba"> </span></span></span><p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph">What no one could have expected is that his run would only last 13 seconds. Yes, 13 seconds coming out with number 13. Her arm got caught in one of the doors, she fell to the ground and was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital, which was probably her goodbye to top competition.</p> <span class="content-ad-module "> <span class="content-ad visible-xs roba-container hidden-ad"><span class="ad-unit roba"> </span></span></span><p data-gtm-element-container="modulo-texto-link" class="paragraph"><strong>Temerity? </strong>It's always easy to give your opinion when things happen. We could remember that we are not talking about just any skier, but the queen of speed, 41 years old, Olympic champion, two-time world champion and with 84 victories in the C<strong>World cup</strong>. A global sports star who has the trust of a dozen major brands and who earns almost seven million euros a year from advertising alone, according to <strong>Forbes</strong>. While we await the official statement about the extent of her injury, which will certainly not be good, the only thing we fans can do is applaud a great champion, a global icon of sport, not just alpine skiing, who throughout her career managed to achieve the impossible, until today, the damned number 13 crossed her path.</p> <span class="dynamic-ad-module "/> </div><script type="script/gg"> gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, 'c:facebooka-frU9M5JY', function () { console.log('facebook-ad-def'); !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '682047071976590'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); }); </script>