Lindsey Vonn's dreams of defending her Olympic gold medal suffered a major hit on Saturday when her right knee gave out during a race at the Women's World Cup downhill event in France.
According to EOnline.com, with world top-ranked golfer and boyfriend Tiger Woods looking on Vonn skied out of the race after losing her balance, lifting her left ski which put all of her weight on her surgically-repaired right knee. The mishap led her to miss a gate and immediately double over in pain.
"Everything's great besides my knee," Vonn told reporters after somehow willing herself to finish the race. "Life is great, I'm really happy that Tiger's here supporting me. Like I said, I'm skiing well and I feel confident, unfortunately my knee isn't holding up the way it should because I have no ACL. That's the only negative thing going on in my life right now, everything else seems to be pretty good."
Woods later held his girlfriends hand as they gingerly walked off the course together. The two have now been publicly dating for more than a year.
As for her plans for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Vonn's path seems unclear.
"Bummed about today," she later tweeted, before adding "skiing with no ACL is hard. Will see how it responds over the next few days and then make a plan #notgivingup #Sochi 2014"
Vonn suffered serious injuries on Nov. 19, including a mild strain to her right knee, partial tear to her right ACL, minor facial abrasions and scapular contusions from a fall.
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