Lindsey Vonn can’t say what her future may hold, but she answered definitively whether she’s “entertaining” another comeback attempt.
The skiing legend nearly had her leg amputated after she fractured her tibia while competing in the downhill at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February, just nine days after she tore her ACL in a World Cup crash.
Speaking with "TODAY" co-anchor Craig Melvin in an interview that aired on Tuesday, Vonn addressed whether she’ll move on from the sport.
“I can move on,” she said. “I mean, it’s not a question of can I. I already have, you know? And I already retired for six years. Like, I know what it’s like to not be a ski racer anymore. It’s just that ski racing is something I love to do. And I had so much fun this season that — and I never got to — I never got a final run.”
“I think it leaves a door slightly open to, I don’t know, maybe I would do one more race to say goodbye or maybe I’ll race again,” she said. “It might be fun to do one more run. We’ll see.”
The three-time Olympic medalist, who initially retired in 2019 due to injuries before mounting a comeback in 2024, said her Olympics crash kept her from formally leaving the sport.
“So you’re entertaining the idea of maybe another comeback?” Melvin asked.
“I mean, much to my family’s dismay, yes,” she said. “I think it’s just something that — I mean, I’ve been, like I said, so isolated and not able to really live life outside of skiing.”
“Like, I’m still kind of trapped in this, like, I didn’t have my Olympic dream situation ... I need to walk and be out in public and, you know, be living life. And I think that will give me a different perspective,” she added. “Right now I can’t say what the future holds because I can’t — my mind can’t get there yet.”
Vonn, who suffered a complex tibia fracture and compartment syndrome, is currently undergoing extensive physical therapy. She told Melvin her daily routine involves two hours of therapy, two hours in a hyperbaric chamber, time in the gym and more.
“Every day?” Craig asked.
“On repeat,” Vonn said. “Every day.”
