CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Take it from an actual Olympic Alpine skier: all these armchair experts claiming Lindsey Vonn's injury caused her crash have no idea what they're talking about.
When you hook a gate at high speed, as Vonn did in the downhill race Sunday, Feb. 8, there is little chance of making a recovery, said Keely Cashman, one of the American speed skiers.
"That twists your body around. That has nothing to do with her ACL, nothing to do with her knee," Cashman said Monday, Feb. 9. "A lot of people are ridiculing that, and a lot of people don't know what's going on.
"I'm not sure why people have so many opinions about it."
Because people are ignorant. And think they understand skiing and skiers' injuries and Olympic selection procedures when they ... do not.
