ESPN is reporting Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn has decided to delay additional surgery on her already surgically repaired right knee in hopes of being able to compete in the upcoming Sochi Olympics.
Tiger Woods' girlfriend suffered a partially torn ACL in a Colorado ski crash late last month, putting her hopes of being able to successfully defend her Olympic downhill title this February in grave danger.
"I probably would've done what I'm doing right now, test it out," Vonn told ESPN after a training session at Vail on Sunday. "Either way, at the end of the season, I have to reconstruct the ACL. So it's kind of like, might as well see how long it holds up. Not a lot of options. In the end, surgery is going to have to happen."
According to ESPN, Vonn now plans to travel to Lake Louise, Alberta where she presumably will train until The Games commence. After pronouncing her knee felt "really good," Vonn told the website she's "just trying to ski solid. I'm not trying to do race runs. I'm trying to build into it. Not push it too hard. But I was still be able to be aggressive and confident in what I'm doing so that when I get up to Lake Louise I can hopefully have a good feeling right away."
Vonn needs three wins to match Austrian great Annemarie Moser-Proell's record of 62 victories in World Cup races.
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