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SAM Magazine—Schladming, Austria, Feb. 5, 2013—U.S. ski racing champion Lindsey Vonn fell hard during the women's super G event at the World Championships earlier today and was flown by helicopter to a hospital. According to U.S. Ski Team medical director Kyle Wilkens, Vonn suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee and a lateral tibial plateau fracture. She will be out for the remainder of this season but may heal in time to compete during the 2013-14 World Cup season and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, according to her medical team.

SAM Magazine—Schladming, Austria, Feb. 5, 2013—U.S. ski racing champion Lindsey Vonn fell hard during the women's super G event at the World Championships earlier today and was flown by helicopter to a hospital. According to U.S. Ski Team medical director Kyle Wilkens, Vonn suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee and a lateral tibial plateau fracture. She will be out for the remainder of this season but may heal in time to compete during the 2013-14 World Cup season and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, according to her medical team.

Vonn had posted the fastest first interval and was having a strong run when she went down off a jump midway down the course. One report said that Vonn lost her balance on upon landing, lost her ski, and slid into a gate before coming to a stop.

Weather may have been a factor. The start of the race was postponed several times over three and a half hours due to fog, and went into a 15-minute hold after the first eight racers had completed their runs. Vonn ran 19th.

World Cup points leader and two-time Olympic silver medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia won the race, with American Julia Mancuso in third.