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What Lindsey Vonn’s Crash Taught Us

By Kevin Sintumuang

I had a plan: sit my daughters down on the couch, pour myself something warm, and give them a lesson in triumph. I’d point at the screen—at Lindsey Vonn, 41, titanium knee, freshly torn ACL, somehow still upright in the starting gate at Cortina—and say: See? This is what it looks like when someone refuses to quit.

Parents do this. We curate the world for our kids. And here, children, you will observe a lesson about perseverance! I am guilty of this constantly. Lindsey Vonn is exactly the kind of story you want to hand someone you love, whole and shining.

But the mountain, as it often does, had different ideas.

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Welcome to Field Notes, a members-only dispatch from Outside's editorial director on the outdoor stuff and ideas worth obsessing over—straight from the trail, road, and everywhere in between.

What Lindsey Vonn’s Crash Taught Us

Welcome to *Field Notes**, a members-only dispatch from Outside's editorial director on the outdoor stuff and ideas worth obsessing over—straight from the trail, road, and everywhere in between.*