DOOLEY Observed: Vonn crashes while prepping for return to racing

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Vonn crashes while prepping for return to racing

DENVER (AP) — Reigning Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn crashed Tuesday while training in Copper Mountain, Colo., ahead of her planned return to racing following major knee surgery.

"We have no reason to believe it's anything significant right now," Kelly told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.U.S. Ski Team spokesman Tom Kelly said Vonn was taken down the hill on a sled, which he noted was "normal protocol" in such cases. Kelly said he was not sure whether Vonn hurt her surgically repaired right knee in the fall at the team's speed training center.

A spokesman for Vonn, Lewis Kay, issued a statement saying the ski racer was not admitted to a hospital and instead went home to Vail to be evaluated by the doctor who performed her knee surgery. Kay didn't specify the nature of her injuries.

"We expect to have clarity on the situation in the next 24 hours," Kay said.