Lindsey Vonn is recovering from a crash that nearly cost the decorated alpine skier her leg, but Vonn said this week she’s not ruling out a return to the Olympics in 2030, when she’d be 45 years old.
In an interview with CNBC Sport, the Olympic gold medalist said she would consider making one final run at the 2030 Winter Olympics — if she can be competitive.
“It’s been done,” Vonn said. “If I were to do it, I would only do it if I could be fast. But, I don’t know, that’s a long ways off. I would be 45 [during] the next Olympics. That might be a little bit too much, but we’ll see.”
Vonn said she’s still using crutches following the crash during her first downhill run at the Milano Cortina Olympics in February. She said she expects to be walking unassisted by the end of April.
But she still needs one more surgery later this year, she said, to take metal out of her leg from previous surgeries during the last two months — she’s now had five — and to repair her ACL, which she tore in January, nine days before her Olympic run.
