American skier Lindsey Vonn announced Saturday that her latest surgery was successful, and that she has been cleared to return to the United States after breaking her left leg in a brutal crash last weekend during her opening downhill race at the Winter Olympics in Italy.
“Surgery well well today!” the 41-year-old Vonn wrote on social media. This marks her fourth surgery since the Feb. 8 crash.
Vonn had said Friday she would need at least two more surgeries — the one Saturday and a second after she returns to the U.S.
On Wednesday, Vonn disclosed she had already undergone three surgeries since experiencing the injury. She wrote Saturday that once she’s back in the U.S., she plans on giving “more updates and info about my injury.”
The Olympic veteran from Colorado also reflected on her crash, saying, “I don’t have regrets.”
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