AP Top News｜林赛·沃恩的父亲向美联社表示，如果由他决定，女儿在奥运会上的这次摔伤将意味着她职业生涯的终结

CORTINA DAMPEZZO, Italy (AP) Lindsey Vonns father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend.

Shes 41 years old and this is the end of her career, Alan Kildow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. There will be no more ski races for Lindsey Vonn, as long as I have anything to say about it.

Kildow and the rest of Vonns family a brother and two sisters, too have been with Vonn while she is being treated at a hospital in Treviso following her fall and helicopter evacuation from the course in Cortina on Sunday.

The hospital late Sunday released a statement saying Vonn had undergone surgery on her left leg and the U.S. Ski Team said she was in stable condition. There have not been other updates since.

Kildow declined to comment on details of Vonns injuries, but he did address how she was doing emotionally.

Shes a very strong individual, Kildow said. She knows physical pain and she understands the circumstances that she finds herself in. And shes able to handle it. Better than I expected. Shes a very, very strong person. And so I think shes handling it real well.

Kildow a former ski racer himself who taught his daughter to race said he slept in his daughters hospital room overnight.

She has somebody with her or multiple people with her at all times, Kildow said. Well have people here as long as shes here.

Kildow and the rest of Vonns family watched the crash from the finish area with all of the other spectators.

First, the shock and the horror of the whole thing, seeing a crash like that, Kildow said of what he felt watching the scene unfold. It can be dramatic and traumatic. Youre just horrified at what those kinds of impacts have.

You can go into a shock an emotional psychological shock, he added. Because its difficult to just accept whats happened. But shes well cared for. And the USOC and the U.S. Ski team have a very, very top-notch doctor with her and she is being very well cared for here in Italy.

Vonn raced the downhill despite tearing the ACL in her left knee nine days earlier in another crash.

What happened to her had nothing to do with the ACL issue on her left leg. Nothing, Kildow said. She had demonstrated that she was able to function at a very high level with the two downhill training runs. And she had been cleared by high level physicians to ski.

Kildow said the crash was less a result of Vonns knee injury than the way she pushed the limits of her racing line to the point where she clipped a gate early in her run and got knocked out of control.

There are times sometimes in any race, but especially in downhill, where you have to take a little speed off, he said. You can give yourself a little bit more leeway on the line so you dont put yourself in a questionable position.

Vonn, who holds the record of 12 World Cup victories in Cortina, returned to the circuit last season after nearly six years of retirement and after a partial titanium replacement surgery in her right knee. She won two downhills and finished on the podium in seven of the eight World Cup races that she finished this season and came fourth in the other one.

She won 84 World Cup races. And not many people do that, Kildow said, referring to Vonns victory total, which place her second on the all-time womens list behind teammate Mikaela Shiffrins record 108 wins.

And theres a hell of a lot of the difference between a speed race, a downhill especially, and a slalom, Kildow added.

Vonn will not return to the Olympics to cheer on teammates or for anything else, Kildow said.

No, shes not that in kind of situation, he said. She will be going home at an appropriate point in time.

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意大利科尔蒂纳丹佩佐（美联社）——林赛·沃恩的父亲周一表示，如果他能影响这位美国滑雪明星的决定，她将不再参加比赛。由于上周末在高山速降项目中腿部骨折，她将不会重返冬奥会赛场。

艾伦·基尔多在接受美联社电话采访时表示："她已41岁，职业生涯就此终结。只要我还能做主，林赛·沃恩就再也不会参加滑雪比赛了。"

基尔多（Kildow）和冯（Vonn）的其他家人——包括一个兄弟和两个姐妹——在冯于周日从科尔蒂纳赛道摔倒并直升机撤离后，一直陪伴她在特雷维索的医院接受治疗。

周日深夜，医院发布声明称，冯恩已接受左腿手术。美国滑雪队表示，她目前情况稳定。此后暂无进一步消息更新。

基尔多（Kildow）拒绝就冯（Vonn）的伤势细节置评，但谈及了她的情绪状态。

“她是个非常坚强的人，”基尔多说道。“她深知身体的痛苦，也清楚自己所处的境况。但她能够应对这一切，甚至比我预想的还要好。她是个极其、极其坚强的人。因此我认为她处理得非常出色。”

基尔多（Kildow）曾是一名滑雪运动员，他教会了女儿滑雪。他表示自己在女儿的病房里过夜。

“她身边总有人陪着——有时还不止一个，”基尔多说道，“只要她在这里，我们就会安排人员在场。”

基尔多和冯恩的其他家人在终点区与其他观众一起目睹了这场事故。

“首先是震惊和恐惧，目睹这样一场撞击，”基尔多（Kildow）描述他亲眼所见时的感受，“这场景极具冲击力且令人痛苦。那种撞击带来的破坏力让人不寒而栗。”

“你可能会陷入一种情绪和心理上的震惊，”他补充道，“因为要接受已经发生的事情并不容易。但她得到了很好的照顾。美国奥委会和美国滑雪队为她配备了一位非常顶尖的医生，她在意大利得到了非常妥善的照料。”

尽管九天前在另一次摔倒中左膝前十字韧带撕裂，沃恩仍坚持参加了速降滑雪比赛。

基尔多表示：“她遭遇的情况与左膝前十字韧带伤势毫无关联，完全无关。她在两次速降训练中已展现出极高竞技状态，且已获顶尖医师的滑雪许可。”

基尔多表示，冯恩的摔倒与其说是膝盖受伤所致，不如说是她在比赛中过于追求极限，导致在滑行初期碰倒了旗门，从而失控。

"在任何比赛中，尤其是下坡赛段，有时你必须稍微降低速度，"他说道，"这样可以在路线上给自己更多回旋余地，避免陷入危险境地。"

冯恩在科尔蒂纳保持着12次世界杯夺冠的纪录，她在退役近六年并接受右膝部分钛合金置换手术后，于上赛季重返赛场。本赛季她参加了八场世界杯比赛，其中两场速降赛夺冠，七次登上领奖台，另一场获得第四名。

“她赢得了84场世界杯比赛。能做到这一点的人并不多，”基尔多说道。他指的是沃恩的获胜总场次，这一成绩使她在女子历史排行榜上位列第二，仅次于队友米凯拉·希弗林创下的108场胜利纪录。

“速降比赛（尤其是高山速降）与回转滑雪之间存在着天壤之别，”基尔多补充道。

基尔多表示，冯恩将不会重返奥运会为队友加油或参与其他任何活动。

“不，她并没有陷入那种境地，”他说道，“她将在适当的时候回家。”