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Without Vonn and Miller, US Ski Team has plenty of chances to medal

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Without Vonn and Miller, US Ski Team has plenty of chances to medal

By KELLEY McMILLAN. Published: February 6, 2013. SCHLADMING, Austria — One day after Lindsey Vonn's season-ending crash, she said she planned to come back better than ever for the 2013-14 World Cup season.

Championship Super G race in Schladming, Austria. Her knee twisted every which way as she bounced down the mountain. She tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament in her right knee and sustained a tibial fracture. Ouch!

[Update 1:13 p.m. ET] Still more details about Lindsey Vonn's serious knee injury today at the Alpine Ski World Championships: She suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee, and also fractured her lateral tibial plateau,

SCHLADMING, Austria — The Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn, whose record-breaking ski racing career has frequently mixed stirring triumph with frightening spills, tore two knee ligaments in a tumbling crash Tuesday and will need reconstructive surgery.

Lindsey Vonn will miss the rest of the ski season after crashing during the super-G at the world championships Tuesday in Schladming, Austria, and being airlifted to a hospital. Vonn tore her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in

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