MILAN (AP) — The determination that fuels an athlete’s ascent to the Olympics can explain why they believe they’re capable of enormous feats — even when they’re injured. Lindsey Vonn tore her left ACL but nine days later put on a brace and let it fly in the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Vonn's Olympic dreams came to a heartbreaking close Sunday after she crashed during a women’s alpine skiing downhill race at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Milano Cortina. She had been racing with a torn ACL but she said it did not cause the crash.

Breezy Johnson reacted to teammate Lindsey Vonn’s devastating crash after Johnson won Olympic downhill gold, 16 years after Vonn’s win.