Lindsay Vonn has “no regrets” about her decision to compete Winter Olympic Games Nine days after tearing his ACL, despite suffering a complicated tibia fracture that would require multiple surgeries. Sunday downhill accident.

Vonn injured her ACL in Switzerland in the last Alpine Skiing World Cup race before the Games. However, the 41-year-old was determined to compete in her final Olympics in Milan-Cortina and successfully completed two training runs.

However, the risk she took in racing backfired early in her run as Vonn crashed into a gate, receiving prolonged medical attention on the ramp before being airlifted off the piste.

The accident marked a sad end to Vonn’s Olympic career, in which she won three medals, including gold in the downhill in 2010 in Vancouver.

But in a statement posted on her Instagram account, Vonn struck an upbeat note despite her horrific injury.

She wrote: “Yesterday my Olympic dream didn’t end the way I dreamed it would. It wasn’t a storybook ending or a fairy tale, it was just life. I dared to dream and worked hard to achieve it. Because the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury in downhill ski racing can be as small as 5 inches.”

“I was only 5 inches too tight into my line when my right hand hooked inside the gate, twisting me and resulting in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash.

“Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture which is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to properly fix.

“While yesterday did not end as I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain, I have no regrets. Standing at the starting gate yesterday was an amazing feeling that I will never forget. Knowing that I stood there was a chance to win and that was a victory in itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It was always in a dangerous port and always will be dangerous.

“And like ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts break. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know. But that’s the beauty of life, too; we can try.

“I tried. I dreamed. I jumped.

“I hope that if you take anything away from my journey, it’s that you all have the courage to dare. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying.

“I believe in you, as you believed in me.”