What Lindsey Vonn wrote after her crash at the Olympics
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
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Summary
The American alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn has been one of the most compelling stories at the Winter Olympics. A week before competition began, she tore her left ACL during training. She persisted with her dream despite the pain. But she crashed in the downhill final Sunday and fractured her left tibia, an injury that will require multiple surgeries to repair. She has since posted an inspiring, admirable message to social media that expresses powerfully what could be called the defining ethos of our day. And this fact defines the greatest challenge of our day.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 10th, 2026, and this is the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. Today's daily article was authored by cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.5 | The American Alpine ski racer, Lindsay Vaughn, has been one of the most compelling stories at the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:23.9 | A gold medalist in the 2010 games, she retired in 2019 after a variety of injuries and underwent a partial knee replacement in 2024. |
| 0:34.1 | After the surgery, she felt so healthy that she decided to return to her sport and prepared at the age of 41 to compete in the current games. |
| 0:43.4 | A week before competition began, she tore her left ACL during training. |
| 0:48.3 | She persisted with her dream despite the pain. |
| 0:51.0 | But she crashed in the downhill final Sunday and fractured her left tibia, |
| 0:55.5 | an injury that will require multiple surgeries to repair. Lindsay shared a lengthy Instagram post on |
| 1:01.8 | Monday in which she wrote, while yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the |
| 1:07.2 | intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. |
| 1:11.1 | Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. |
| 1:16.1 | Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. |
| 1:20.8 | Bond continues, and similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. |
| 1:25.3 | We dream, we love, we jump, and sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. |
| 1:31.2 | Sometimes we don't achieve the dream. We know we could have. But that is also the beauty of life. |
| 1:36.9 | We can try. I tried. I dreamt. I jumped. I jumped. I hope if you can take anything away from my journey, |
| 1:43.9 | it's that you all have the courage |
| 1:45.9 | to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself, because the only failure in life |
| 1:52.6 | is not trying. I have marveled at the discipline and sacrifice that someone like Lindsey Vaughn displays, |
| 1:59.1 | and I feel inspired by her decision to use her |
| 2:03.1 | platform at this very painful time to encourage the rest of us to follow her example, to take |
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