@espn This is why it’s important to have people around you that know when to say no.
It was absolutely related. She got too much air and couldn’t put weight on the leg to get the right angle. This caused a distraction and hooked the gate.
Lindsey Vonn said Monday in a post to Instagram that she suffered a complex tibia fracture "that will require multiple surgeries to fix properly" when she crashed in the downhill Sunday.
"I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever," she wrote.