Lindsey Vonn has announced she will retire following this month's world championships in Sweden due to lingering issues with her surgically-repaired knees. The women's all-time leader in World Cup wins made the announcement Friday, leaving her with just two more events in her career.
Vonn, 34, had been planning to retire in December but changed her plans because of persistent pain in both of her knees, which she fully realized after failing to finish a race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, last month.
'It's been an emotional 2 weeks making the hardest decision of my life, but I have accepted that I cannot continue ski racing,' Vonn wrote on Instagram . 'I will compete at the World Championships in Downhill and SG (super-G) next week in Are, Sweden and they will be the final races of my career.'
The worlds open with the women's super-G on Tuesday in the Swedish resort of Are. The women's downhill is scheduled for February 10.
Lindsey Vonn has only two races remaining on her aching knees after announcing she will retire following this month's world championships in Sweden
Lindsey Vonn's right knee is permanently damaged from previous crashes. The American has also torn ACLs, suffered fractures near her left knee, broken her ankle, sliced her right thumb, had a concussion and more. She's limited now to about three runs per day, and her aching body can't handle the workload of other skiers
In this December 9, 2017, file photo, United States' Lindsey Vonn grimaces in pain after getting to the finish area of an women's World Cup super-G ski race in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Vonn announced Friday she will retire from ski racing after this month's world championships
Vonn's right knee is permanently damaged from previous crashes. The American has also torn ACLs, suffered fractures near her left knee, broken her ankle, sliced her right thumb, had a concussion and more. She's limited now to about three runs per day, and her aching body can't handle the workload of other skiers.
'My body is broken beyond repair and it isn't letting me have the final season I dreamed of,' Vonn said. 'My body is screaming at me to STOP and it's time for me to listen.'
However, with 82 World Cup wins, Vonn will not be able to match the overall record of 86 held by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.
'Honestly, retiring isn't what upsets me. Retiring without reaching my goal is what will stay with me forever,' Vonn said. 'However, I can look back at 82 World Cup wins, 20 World Cup titles, 3 Olympic medals, 7 World Championship medals and say that I have accomplished something that no other woman in HISTORY has ever done, and that is something that I will be proud of FOREVER!'
In her announcement, Vonn also made public for the first time that she had surgery following last season.
Over her decorated career, Vonn has accumulated 82 World Cup wins, 20 World Cup titles, three Olympic medals - including a gold - and seven world cup medals
Lindsey Vonn has had her knee reconstructed at least twice. She currently has pins in the joint
In this January 19, 2019, file photo, United States' Lindsey Vonn competes during the women's World Cup downhill ski race in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. Vonn announced Friday that she will retire from ski racing after this month's world championships in Sweden
Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn of USA during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Downhill on December 21, 2013 in Val d'Isere, France. The two are no longer dating
'A large portion of cartilage that had delaminated from my bone was removed,' Vonn said, without specifying which bone. 'My crash in Lake Louise last year was much more painful than I let on, but I continued to race because I wanted to win a medal in the Olympics for my late grandfather.'
Vonn achieved that goal by winning a bronze medal in downhill at last year's Pyeongchang Games.
In this January 20, file photo, Lindsey Vonn hugs a US team staffer in the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. It seemed like destiny played a role on Sunday when Mikaela Shiffrin won what turns out to be one of Vonn's final races of her career
But then she crashed again during training in Copper Mountain, Colorado, in November, and tore the lateral collateral ligament and sustained three fractures in her left knee.
'Despite extensive therapy, training and a knee brace, I am not able make the turns necessary to compete the way I know I can,' Vonn said.
Retiring in Sweden brings Vonn full circle.
She won the first two major championship medals of her career - two silvers - at the 2007 worlds in Are. Vonn has also won seven World Cup races at the Swedish resort, including two giant slaloms, and has 12 podiums overall there.
At last season's World Cup finals in Are, Vonn won the downhill and finished third in the super-G.
So broken knees and all, nobody will be counting Vonn out as a contender in her final races.
'Can't wait to see some of you in the finish in Are,' she said, 'where I will give it my all one last time.'
After previously dating golf legend Tiger Woods, Vonn is now in a relationship with one of the NHL's biggest stars, Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban.
After previously dating golf legend Tiger Woods, Vonn is now in a relationship with one of the NHL's biggest stars, Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban
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