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Lindsey Vonn will try and race Sunday's women's downhill at the Milano Cortina Olympics despite a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, usually a season-ending knee injury, in what she hoped could yet be a comeback against all odds.
The 41-year-old US Alpine ski great, and 2010 Olympic champion, revealed for the first time on Tuesday (local time) the full extent of her injuries and outlined what she might still achieve after a downhill crash in Crans-Montana, in Switzerland.
"Last Friday in the last World Cup, I completely ruptured my ACL," the downhill World Cup leader
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