Lindsey Vonn faces a race against time to be fit for the Winter Olympics after being airlifted to hospital following a crash in her final downhill race before the Games.

United States skier Lindsey Vonn among three crashes in Crans-Montana in Switzerland with race eventually cancelled.

American ski great limps away clutching her knee as race is abandoned amid safety concerns nine days before Olympic downhill in Cortina d’Ampezzo