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Gold Medal-winning U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn airlifted to Austrian hospital following crash in world championships
Published: 2/5/2013 11:44 AM
Last Modified: 2/5/2013 2:19 PM


United States' Lindsey Vonn is seen being airlifted after crashing during the women's super-G course, at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday. LUCA BRUNO/AP Photo

Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn was airlifted to a hospital in Austria Tuesday following a high-speed crash during the Alpine World Championships.

The former Olympic Gold Medal Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who guest-starred on NBC's "Law & Order" in 2010, lost her balance while landing a jump in the Super-G in Schladming, Austria. She slammed into a ski gate, lost a ski and slid 500 feet down the slope at a rapid rate of speed.

Tmz.com reports doctors evaluated the skier for 12 minutes before she was airlifted to a helicopter and flown to a nearby hospital.

Reports are that the doctor who examined he "believes she suffered a tibial plateau fracture - also known as a break in the shinbone," according to the website.

Her serviceman Heinz Hammerle said he thought Vonn sustained an injury to her right knee, according to nytimes.com, and her sister Laura told NBC Vonn would need surgery.

Vonn, who is the most successful U.S. woman skier in World Cup history, had to fight her way back from a severe shin injury to take the gold in downhill and a bronze medal in a Super G event in Vancouver, Canada, in 2009.

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, will be held Feb. 7-23, 2014, in Sochi,Russia.

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Reader Comments 12 Total
72189 (last week)
Not sure if the type is on the "500" feet or the video is of something else, but the slide in the video is closer to 100 feet than 500.
Ric (last week)
I certainly hope she'll be alright.
Dr. Strangelove (last week)
Wow- not good news, I hope she's okay, the crash didn't look that bad.
I just added a second video taken from a different angle that better shows the distance and the severity of the crash.
                    
210513 (last week)
These two videos are not of the same accident. Note that the ski releases on the second video but not on the first, among other differences.
                    
Dadzilla (last week)
Absolutely these are to different crashes!
Different course, different tree line...Lots of differences
Stop using file footage.
Ric (last week)
I've had high speed ski crashes, and been injured. Sliding along for a great distance can pound and pummel the body more than one would think.
JoTulsa (last week)
The videos are not of the same race or on the same race course.
JoTulsa (last week)
The second video is the correct video
You're absolutely right. I have deleted the incorrect video. Sorry.
                    
Dadzilla (last week)
Thanx Rita,
Making mistakes is human...
...Correcting them is honorable.
Thanks Dadzilla! And thank-you for reading my blog. Much appreciated.
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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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