2026 Winter Olympics

[BlueRockape]

Women's down hill skier Vonn from America claims she will still compete with a ruptured ACL.
Is that possible?

 

[TonyM]

It's almost down hill for her.

 

[smevchenko]

Women's down hill skier Voss from America claims she will still compete with a ruptured ACL.
Is that possible?

I think she just wants to compete at a final Winter Olympics, can't see her being there in another 4 years, so just give it a go. I very much doubt she can get a medal, and faces damaging her knee even further.

I did my ACL and meniscus, wasn't diagnosed for a while, but kept having issues playing 5 a side. I can't imagine flying down a hill and manoeuvring between gates is going to go smoothly with a ruptured ACL

 

[bluefrom78]

Women's down hill skier Voss from America claims she will still compete with a ruptured ACL.
Is that possible?

I had partially torn ACL (dunno if that's classed the same as 'ruptured') and the surgeon who did an unrelated cartilage repair on the knee and 'tidied up' the torn bit of ACL which had balled up said I'd be able to do skiing but advised against sports like football, basketball, tennis that would require unexpected changes of direction and unexpected stop/starts. I was quite surprised by that as I'd have thought skiing would be out.
Subsequently did go skiing a few years later without issue although I'm not the greatest (blue/red run level) so wasn't pushing it.
I suspect it's because with skiing you're doing parallel turns so have both legs to rely on and you know the direction you're going and what turns you'll be making ahead of time, so there's unlikely to be unexpected changes of direction or starts/stops unless you stack it.
Chances are her surrounding muscles etc. are all built strongly (being an Olympic level athlete and all) and can probably compensate to a large degree and the belief might be that the remaining ACL will be sufficient to get her through.
For the likes of the general public that's probably fine as people aren't going to be doing slalom or ludicrously fast downhill runs but at Olympic level I'd guess it'll affect performance but hopefully not to the extent that it causes her to completely wreck the ACL or other ligaments

 

[idahoblues]

Breezy Johnson and Jaelin Kauf both live in my Valley in Idaho, both of Kauf’s parents were Olympic skiers too

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Looking forward to the bialthon stuff but not on the BBC who seem to think that watching someone ski the last 2000m after the shooting is the money shot.....oh and all 3 varients if Curling.

Apart from that meh.

 

[BlueNomad]

Women's down hill skier Voss from America claims she will still compete with a ruptured ACL.
Is that possible?

It’s VONN, and she came out of retirement at 41 for this, having a great warm-up season, winning World Cup events, and then fell on the final downhill before the Games!

If it is humanly possible (and with a metal brace, I assume!), she’ll compete…and good luck to her!

That said, I’m struggling to think of another interesting or inspiring story in these Games.

Sad to say, but the complete over saturation of sports…all sports…on TV these days, and the massive overhyped commercialization of big events now, has taken nearly all the luster off what were once stand out events!

Hell, I’m even struggling to have any excitement for the World Cup this year, as most of the first few weeks will have games between teams who shouldn’t even be there!

 

[bakerdave76]

Just watching the mixed doubles curling, just nice to watch, what is the best channel to watch it on when it gets going, not bbc .

 

[NPBlue]

Just watching the mixed doubles curling, just nice to watch, what is the best channel to watch it on when it gets going, not bbc .

I don't know if will be the best, but TNT are showing the games if you don't like the BBC.

 

[chesterbells]

As per summer Olympics, bbc now get two streams maximum; one is made up of bbc1/2 then other is their red button channel. Two channels should be plenty for 99% of UK viewers for the winter sports tbh. I enjoyed Lake Placid and Sarajevo with only one channel.

 

[idahoblues]

Kinda sad how this event has become so negatively accepted. I understand why people don’t want to indulge, just sad

 

[north down blue]

Anything that brings Orla Chennaoui onto our screens on a daily basis is ok by me

 

[Gray]

Anything that brings Orla Chennaoui onto our screens on a daily basis is ok by me

Begorra!

 

[JRockBlues]

Women's down hill skier Vonn from America claims she will still compete with a ruptured ACL.
Is that possible?

Here she is (post ACL rupture) doing som exercises

 

[BlueRockape]

Here she is (post ACL rupture) doing som exercises

That's got to hurt with an ACL

 

[TinFoilHat]

Just watching the mixed doubles curling, just nice to watch, what is the best channel to watch it on when it gets going, not bbc .

TNT/Discovery plus app will have most of it. The BBC have secondary rights to all events.

If your friend has legitimate IPTV the NBC winter Olympic sports channels will cover all events.

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Short track speed skating is a decent watch - as long as you don't think what might happen with those flashing blades.

 

[tweety]

Hope Franz Klammer is waxing his skis, he was the dog's bollocks.

 

[Vienna_70]

Hope Franz Klammer is waxing his skis, he was the dog's bollocks.

1976?

 

[idahoblues]

1976?

Yes, he was the best ever