U.S. skiers Lindsey Vonn and Rell Harwood both competed in the 2026 Winter Olympics with a torn ACL. Harwood, making her Olympic debut, tore her ACL in December but still competed in the big air ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of ...

ACL tears are among the most devastating injuries in sports, routinely sidelining 20-something-year-old professional athletes for a year or more. Countless instances of the world’s best athletes ...

Breezy Johnson said "more athletes have competed without an ACL than you think" in response to a fan Natasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears in The New ...

When skier Lindsey Vonn announced on Tuesday she was going to try to race in the Olympics with a completely torn knee ligament, it sounded as though she’d left her good sense somewhere up a mountain.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — We are just two days away from the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics. Tuesday, American skier Lindsey Vonn announced she still plans on competing in the games despite injuring ...

As if the Lindsey Vonn comeback couldn’t get any more dramatic. Unless you’ve been hibernating in a cave, you may have read that Vonn, the comeback queen of American ski racing, is enduring a ...

Lindsey Vonn plans to race on Sunday despite a fully ruptured left ACL and meniscus damage. An orthopedic surgeon noted that while Vonn is not a "normal human being," skiing without an ACL presents ...

Lindsey Vonn made it very clear on Tuesday that her Olympics comeback is far from over. The 41-year-old Olympic medalist, who is aiming to become the oldest Alpine skier in Olympic history, sustained ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quadriceps tendon autograft has emerged as an excellent option for ACL reconstruction, particularly for active ...