The next day, the 41-year-old appeared in the game with a torn anterior cruciate ligament after being injured the week before.— admitted on Instagram that she suffered a “compound fracture of the tibia,” but emphasized: The cause of her accident had nothing to do with her physical health..
“When I tightened the line five inches too much, my right arm got caught on the inside of the gate and I twisted and crashed,” Lindsey explained. “My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash.”
Although her leg is “stable now,” she said, “it will require multiple surgeries to properly heal.” And despite the fact that Lindsay’s Olympic dreams “didn’t end the way I dreamed,” Lindsay said she’s glad she “dared to dream.”
“Yesterday didn’t end the way I wanted it to, but despite the intense physical pain it caused me, I have no regrets,” she wrote. “I’ll never forget the feeling of disbelief when I stood in the starting gate yesterday. To stand there with a chance to win was a victory in itself.”
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