Just one day after her horrific crash in the women’s downhill event at the Winter Olympics, Team USA alpine skier Lindsey Vonn on Monday declared that she had “no regrets.”

“I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “I believe in you, just as you believed in me. ❤️LV.”

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Vonn attached a photo of the frightening moment when her arm got hooked inside a gate, sending her tumbling into the snow on Sunday. She was then strapped to a stretcher and airlifted via helicopter to a nearby hospital.

Vonn, who was already battling through a severe left knee injury she sustained just before the start of the competition, wrote that her Olympic dream didn’t finish the way she intended.

“I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it,” wrote the 41-year-old, who returned to competitive skiing in 2024 following a years-long retirement due to other injuries. “Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.”

Vonn explained that her ruptured ACL and her history of injuries had nothing to do with the crash. However, it left her with a fracture in her left leg that will require multiple surgeries.

Vonn emphasized that simply standing in the starting gate and having a go at gold “was a victory in and of itself.” 

“And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall,” she said. “Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try. I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”

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U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn revealed she received a “scary amount of hate/threats” following comments she made, last week ahead of competing at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, about Donald Trump’s treatment of the LGBTQ community.

Glenn, the first openly queer woman to represent the United States in Olympic figure skating and who team gold on Sunday, said she would now be taking some time away from social media.

During a press conference ahead of the start of the Milan Cortina 2026 Games last week, Glenn told a reporter it had been “a hard time” for the community and said she wanted to “encourage people to stay strong,” while vowing to continue speaking up.

On Saturday, Glenn addressed the backlash to those comments in an Instagram story, writing: “When I chose to utilize one of the amazing things about the United States of America (Freedom of speech) to convey how I feel as an athlete competing for Team USA in a troubling time for many Americans I am now receiving a scary amount of hate/threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel.”

Several athletes have acknowledged feeling a mix of emotions about representing the U.S. this year. American skier Hunter Hess drew the ire of Trump, who branded him a “real loser.”

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