Emotional posting

Vonn wants “the active life I want”

Lindsey Vonn shows herself convalescing on Instagram.(Bild: Instagram.com/lindseyvonn)

"I hope I can lead the active life I want." Lindsey Vonn is quite emotional on Instagram after her knee operation.

At least she can smile again. Still in her surgical outfit, the former ski queen smiles into the camera for the cheeky Instagram snapshot. There are more pictures and, above all, a long text. She "treated herself" to a new, artificial knee joint, the operation went well and the doctors did an "incredible" job: "They cut off part of my bone and replaced it with pieces of titanium."

Hoping for an active life
Doesn't read so sexy. But she didn't have many alternatives, writes the US-American, and would have ended up rubbing bone on bone. Towards the end of her message, however, she becomes confident. She hopes to be able to "lead the active life I want" with her "new" knee.

And then the well-known fighter nature comes through again. "Don't worry, it's just another setback in my life," she says with a feisty attitude. She wants to get back on her feet as quickly as possible. "I can't hold myself back for long." That's encouraging.