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Over the weekend, American skiing icon Lindsey Vonn was spotted at the Los Angeles airport being transported in a wheelchair. This sighting comes as she continues her recovery journey following a devastating crash at the Winter Olympics in February.
Since the incident during the women’s downhill event, Vonn has undergone several surgeries to address a severe fracture in her left leg. The injury was so serious that it nearly led doctors to consider amputation.
Recent photographs depict Vonn dressed in a casual, dark-colored ensemble, seated in a wheelchair while receiving assistance from airport staff during her travels.
In one of the images, Vonn appears to be smiling, with a bag resting on her lap, alongside a smiling airport employee who is assisting her.
Additionally, Vonn was seen with crutches in some of the pictures, indicating she is still reliant on them for mobility.
The American skier has made a miraculous recovery after her Feb. 8 injury, which took place in Italy. At one point, doctors had been in a race to keep from having to amputate her left leg after she suffered from compartment syndrome due to the complex tibial fracture that left her in intense pain, even during her initial CT scan.
“Halfway through, I started sweating. I was just in such extreme pain. I screamed at the top of my lungs: Get me out,” Vonn told Vanity Fair.
“It just wouldn’t dissipate. It wouldn’t let up. It’s seared into my brain.”
Vonn, a three-time Olympic medalist, said that she dealt with depression after the injury and it had “definitely been up and down.”
“I’d say in the last month, it’s definitely gotten better, but of course there were really low moments,” Vonn told People last week. “I hate being dependent on people, and was pretty much 100 [percent] dependent for everything. It was quite a challenge, just being in the hospital alone for two and a half weeks. Being completely immobile for that extended time period was so rough.”
But Vonn also struck a very upbeat tone when looking ahead.
Vonn told the outlet that she felt like she had “hit some nice milestones” and that she was “getting closer to being back to the real world and getting my life back.”
Vonn already has her summer plans in the works and has booked a plane ticket.
She believes that over the next six weeks she’ll be able to live more normally.
And Vonn seemed to indicate that she wasn’t done with skiing just yet.
“Whether it’s on the race course or not, I’ll definitely be going back to it,” she told People.