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.
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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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