"I deeply regret racing on a ruptured ACL." Never going to happen.

Hope she fully recovers, but man, that's going to be a long, painful road.

I broke my tibia and fibula a few years ago (in my 60s). Spiral fracture. Surgically repaired. I was back in my classroom teaching within a week. It would have been sooner, except I had to threaten legal action to get them to accommodate my disability by allowing me to work from home when I was not needed on campus to teach classes.

The pain was excruciating pre-surgery - when idiots in the ER didn't know how to stabilize it without twisting it, but I didn't need narcotics more than 2-3 days past surgery.

I'll stick with "long".

She had no business being there. IMHO.
(I’m a skier, I’ve torn my ACL, I do have cred here)

Great for what she was trying to do at 41. A shame that it turned out to be a lesson in “know your limitations”, but truthfully, it’s one of the best lessons we can re-learn. Just maybe not over and over and over.

All power to Lindsey in her recovery, it isn’t going to be easy, but I hope she gets back to a pain free 100 percent at 42.

Elated that Breezy won the event.

I have an extruded meniscus that I snowboard with - it is limiting even if you're strong and skilled. Maybe if she'd backed off 10% in that bumpy traverse she'd have made it through. But "heedless" is her brand.

Despite her statement to the contrary. Yes, you can ski with a torn ACL, but now you’re compensating, and under ideal snow conditions where maybe you’re just skiing for the sake of joy, you could probably get away with it. Not in conditions that are challenging, not at an Olympic level of competition.

Life changes forever in an unguarded moment. Either you’re the type of person who doesn’t want to end up “what if”ing over missed opportunities, or you’re the type that doesn’t care to spend the rest of your life regretting your hubris.

I’m sure in my 60’s now, my equations run differently than hers at 41.

I'm right there with you.

I'm so sad that hers didn't go the way she had hoped. Hope this injury doesn't affect her future quality of life.

It's shocking that the coaches and team doctors allowed her to compete. Lindsey has set a bad example for other American athletes who have way less ability than she does.

she was doing for her mother’s memory and she said that in the very beginning.

Let her have her moment. She deserves it.

FULL stop. Women don’t require permission to be “allowed” to compete.

Also: Athletes - even the female ones are not there to be anyones “example.” They are there to compete fairly under the rules of their sporrt.

Does this apply to, say, NFL players suspected of suffering a concussion during the course of a game? How about boxers or other combat sport participants who appear to have been or are on the verge of serious injury during a bout? They are full grown men capable of making their own adult decisions.

It was arrogant and delusionally stupid to attempt downhill skiing, of all things, on a recent ACL tear. ...man or woman.

Now she will need to find.a new way forward and live.

My son broke both the fibula and tibia. Paul George had the same break. It is healable. Notice you never see leg casts anymore. It has been replaced by a rod.It takes a year.

And had a reconstruction surgery done in 2020 and a soft cast but couldn’t put any weight on my leg for 4 months and it was a 3 1/2 months before was to walk without the cast! It was very uncomfortable.

Because it didn’t heal right? I had a friend when I was a kid. This guy borrowed my baseball spikes and didn’t know how to use them and really broke his leg. He was in a full cast and the leg moves regardless. He was never the same.
That is where the rod keeps the leg straight during healing.
My son said it really hurt.

It was almost 20 years between the 2 surgeries.

Oh and my bone spurs were real!

I was walking with a walker immediately, and weight bearing within a week or two. I don't remember how long I used a walker, but it wasn't that long (no more than a month, and I believe considerably less).

It does depend on where the break is. Mine was above the ankle, so I didn't need ankle reconstruction. That significantly extends the healing period.

About a year to compete in the NBA. That is for professional athletes to compete again.

I'm not an elite athlete. But the time to normal activities without restriction was far less than the usual healing time with casting (a month or so).

There was an incision on the front of my knee to insert it, and that was the spot that hurt the most during recovery. There was a loss of sensation in my shin though.

she caught the gate wrong. That spun her, so she couldn't have landed right.

Maybe it's the fault of the gate design....

Her ACL had nothing to do with this injury