CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy – The U.S. Alpine Ski team held a toast for Breezy Johnson Sunday night in honor of her gold medal performance in the women's downhill earlier in the day.
Everyone was ecstatic for their friend and teammate on winning her first Olympic medal. She deserved all the praise. But something else happened in the event after Johnson's historic run. Lindsey Vonn crashed 13 seconds after leaving the starting gate. She fractured her left leg and had to be airlifted off the side of the mountain by the Olympic medical team.
"Obviously we're so happy for Breezy, and she skied amazing," technical skier AJ Hurt said Monday, Feb. 9. "And then there's this rock, and it's impossible to ignore how devastating it was for Lindsey.
"... But I think that shouldn't mean that we can't support Breezy and be so happy for her. Because she just won Olympic gold, and that's amazing, and I don't think that anything should take away from that. I think we can have both of those emotions at the same time."
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