Lindsey Vonn says "ride was worth the fall" after fourth surgery, set to return to U.S.

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American skier Lindsey Vonn announced Saturday that her latest country was successful, and that she has been cleared to instrumentality to the United States aft breaking her near leg successful a brutal clang past play during her opening downhill contention astatine the Winter Olympics in Italy.

"Surgery good well today!" the 41-year-old Vonn wrote connected societal media. This marks her 4th country since the Feb. 8 crash.

Vonn had said Friday she would request astatine least two much surgeries — the 1 Saturday and a 2nd aft she returns to the U.S.

On Wednesday, Vonn disclosed she had already undergone three surgeries since experiencing the injury. She wrote Saturday that erstwhile she's backmost successful the U.S., she plans connected giving "more updates and info astir my injury."

The Olympic seasoned from Colorado besides reflected connected her crash, saying, "I don't person regrets."

"The thrust was worthy the fall. When I adjacent my eyes astatine nighttime I don't person regrets and the emotion I person for skiing remains," Vonn said successful her post. "I americium inactive looking guardant to the infinitesimal erstwhile I tin basal connected the apical of the upland erstwhile more. And I will."

Vonn crashed conscionable seconds into the archetypal tally of her Olympic downhill race. She was competing contempt rupturing her near ACL successful a antithetic clang during a World Cup contention successful the Swiss Alps past month.

"I was consenting to hazard and propulsion and sacrifice for thing I knew I was perfectly susceptible of doing," Vonn said successful the post. "I volition ever instrumentality the hazard of crashing portion giving it my all, alternatively than not skis to my imaginable and person regret."

The three-time Olympic medalist had travel retired of status to vie successful the Milan Cortina Games. After tearing her ACL, she had said she felt assured she could inactive contention with the assistance of a genu brace.

"Please, don't beryllium sad," Vonn said. "Empathy, emotion and enactment I invited with an unfastened heart, but delight not sadness oregon sympathy. I anticipation alternatively it gives you spot to support fighting, due to the fact that that is what I americium doing and that is what I volition proceed to do. Always."

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