Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy ¨C U.S. Alpine skiing great Lindsey Vonn had surgery on a broken leg in an Italian hospital after her audacious bid to win Olympic downhill gold with a ruptured knee ligament ended in a horrific crash after 13 seconds on Sunday.
Vonn was treated in the Ca¡¯ Foncello Hospital in the northern city of Treviso after being flown there by helicopter after the high-speed crash in Cortina d¡¯Ampezzo.
¡°In the afternoon, she underwent orthopedic surgery to stabilize the fracture sustained in her ?left leg,¡± the hospital said in a statement. A source said that she was being monitored in the intensive care unit where she could have more ?privacy, and ?stressed there was no threat to her life.
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