Lindsey Vonn Injured in Race, Airlifted to Hospital

U.S. ski champ Lindsey Vonn was airlifted off a mountain in Austria on Tuesday after crashing during the opening super-G at the World Championships. The 28-year-old suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee and a lateral tibial plateau fracture. She will miss the rest of the season. Before the race she wrote in a special column in The Denver Post that it might be postponed because of weather. "I´ve been trying to be patient and stay calm, but it´s pretty tough with the way the weather has been. It snowed a lot Sunday night, there was no training possible Monday on the race hill, then it rained most of Monday afternoon and evening", she wrote.