Can You Ski With a Torn ACL?

Skier Lindsey Vonn said she plans to still compete at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious knee injury about a week before her first race. 

Vonn, 41, wrote in a Feb. 3 social media post that she “completely” ruptured the ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, in her left knee after crashing during a World Cup downhill event on Jan. 30. She said she also suffered a bone bruise and tears of the meniscus, a piece of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber.