what event did lindsey vonn crash in

Lindsey Vonn’s widely reported recent crash happened in the women’s downhill event at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

She went down only a few seconds into her downhill run, catching her arm on a gate, flipping in the air, and suffering a complex fracture in her left leg before being airlifted to a nearby hospital. This Olympic downhill crash came shortly after another crash in her final pre‑Olympic downhill a week earlier, but the big “crash” people are talking about right now is the Milan–Cortina 2026 Olympic women’s downhill race.