{"id":508222,"date":"2026-02-09T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508222"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:29:48","slug":"vonns-father-claims-olympic-crash-marks-end-of-her-career","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vonns-father-claims-olympic-crash-marks-end-of-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Vonn&#8217;s father claims Olympic crash marks &#8216;end of her career&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s dad revealed today that the American superstar will no longer race if it\u2019s his decision to make and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill during the past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLindsey is 41 years old, and this is the end of her career,\u201d Alan Kildow shared with the media. \u201cShe will not race anymore, as long as I have anything to say about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lindsey Vonn&#39;s father tells AP that he hopes his daughter is done with ski racing after her fall in the Winter Olympics downhill. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSAL0OY4wC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BSAL0OY4wC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/2020938907051823583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Vonn had undergone a procedure on her left leg, and the U.S. Ski Team revealed that their superstar was in stable condition. It hasn\u2019t been more updated since then.<\/p>\n<p>Her father didn\u2019t disclose any more details about her injuries, but revealed how she is emotionally:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVonn is a very strong human being,\u201d her dad shared. \u201cLindsey knows physical pain, and she understands the circumstances that he is in at the moment. And she will overcome it. Better than I expected. I believe in her and know that she is a very strong person. And at the moment, she is handling it very well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s dad revealed today that the American superstar will no longer race if it\u2019s his decision to make and that she will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27051],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[27052],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Lindsey\u2019s dad said that the crash could mean the end of her career.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508225,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508222\/revisions\/508225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508222"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508222"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}