"Oh, so, you would compete with a torn ACL?"
No, I wouldn't, but that's why I'm not an Olympic athlete.
I never got up every morning at 4am to train all day for years. Decades.
I never froze my ass off while getting yelled at by a coach for small mistakes and asking if I really want this.
I never watched my family scrape together money for my training as a kid because I told them this is my dream and they believed in me.
I never worked shit jobs during those years of training as a teen and adult to support myself.
I never got injured and sucked it up and persevered.
So, no, I would not have raced because I'm not about that life and never have been.
That's what extraordinary about Lindsey Vonn.
She earned her way back onto Team USA through the same grit and excellence that have defined her career.
She didn't "steal a spot" from anyone.
She's 41 and came out of retirement and bested skiers much younger because she's simply the better athlete who put in the work.
She tore her ACL, consulted with medical experts who gave her the green light, decided to forge ahead, looked great in her training runs, and she was absolutely competitive for the medal stand.
That's the tragic irony of all this: she crashed because of something that could have happened to any skier, not because of her knee.
She knew something like that could happen, yet she still competed fearlessly. As she's always done.
It's why she's an Olympian, and you aren't.
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