Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks.
Speaker 2: It is Sunday, February eighth, and we are hopping on
Speaker 2: because the thing we feared, we dreaded, we hoped wouldn't
Speaker 2: happen at the Olympics has happened. That Lindsey Vaughn has
Speaker 2: gone down in a pretty devastating crash. Welcome to this
Speaker 2: episode episode of Amy and TJ and Robes Look Olympic Dreams.
Speaker 2: Will talk about in a second what she was trying
Speaker 2: to do and.
Speaker 1: Why it's sad.
Speaker 2: But this was a pretty serious, significant crash we just
Speaker 2: watched a short time ago.
Speaker 3: Actually, yes, in fact, I woke up and you The
Speaker 3: first thing you said to me was, Babe, Lindsay vugh
Speaker 3: just crashed, And I said, how bad was it? And look,
Speaker 3: I know it's standard operating procedure to airlift them off
Speaker 3: the mountain, but when you see that happened just that
Speaker 3: visual it is serious, I mean. And unfortunately you can
Speaker 3: see the crash and know that it was but you
Speaker 3: could hear her after she crashed, and her pain was undeniable.
Speaker 4: She was screaming yeah.
Speaker 2: And even if you didn't have your audio up, there
Speaker 2: are images out there. The agony is on her face
Speaker 2: now let's tell you what we do.
Speaker 1: Want to tell you this.
Speaker 2: We're actually delayed in recording and reporting on this because
Speaker 2: we were trying to wait and get some kind of
Speaker 2: a significant update about how she's doing, which we still
Speaker 2: do not have. We don't know exactly how she's doing
Speaker 2: only at the USA team. USA is saying that she
Speaker 2: is being treated by the medical staff and that's to
Speaker 2: be expected, but nothing yet.
Speaker 3: Yes, her family obviously was there on the mountain hoping
Speaker 3: for a much different outcome, but they did speak to
Speaker 3: reporters and said this, and this was reassuring that Lindsay
Speaker 3: has all her surgeons and her physical therapy staff here
Speaker 3: and her doctors, so they are all with her, her.
Speaker 4: Team, and they know what they're dealing with.
Speaker 3: They knew what she was up against, and so her
Speaker 3: family said that they are anxiously awaiting a report, but
Speaker 3: she is in the best hand she could be in.
Speaker 2: When her sister was saying all of that, when she
Speaker 2: was listing so like, she has a whole squad of
Speaker 2: medical staff that travels with her. That is incredible and
Speaker 2: that is impressive, but it was also necessary robes given
Speaker 2: what she was trying to do. A reminder here she
Speaker 2: was in the finals today of the down hill, the
Speaker 2: finals of the downhill, which she has won a gold
Speaker 2: medal in previously. But this is a race that she
Speaker 2: is doing nine days after she ruptured her ACL. That
Speaker 2: is an injury that takes folks six to nine months
Speaker 2: to come back from, and she was out there going
Speaker 2: at it now, Robes the reason, Look, this is always
Speaker 2: a possibility. This is some violent stuff and turns and
Speaker 2: movements and things they're doing to their body at seventy
Speaker 2: plus miles an hour. But Robes, we saw her several
Speaker 2: days ago have very positive training runs. It was the
Speaker 2: first chance we all got to see her test out
Speaker 2: that ACL on her left knee, Robes, and she looked good.
Speaker 3: I know. She actually in one of the training runs,
Speaker 3: I don't believe. I don't know if it was the
Speaker 3: second or the first one. She finished third and hit
Speaker 3: a I think a speed of seven ty eight miles
Speaker 3: per hour. So yes, she had two goes at it,
Speaker 3: and it looked like she was one hundred percent going
Speaker 3: to be in metal contention. And she wasn't giving her
Speaker 3: all obviously, because you hold a little bit back on
Speaker 3: your training runs.
Speaker 4: And she was still doing well.
Speaker 1: But that was part of the question.
Speaker 2: She tested it, but did she fully give it everything
Speaker 2: she's going to give it in the race, And apparently
Speaker 2: something and maybe that was the case, maybe it was not,
Speaker 2: but Robes, it sure looked like and very early on
Speaker 2: in this race will explain here what happened.
Speaker 1: But she was going well.
Speaker 2: Was she thirteenth in the race, and yes, she was
Speaker 2: number thirteen, but she was getting ready for her run.
Speaker 2: Everyone had made it down thus far, meaning the skiers
Speaker 2: were handling the course fairly well. So she gets going,
Speaker 2: Robes and this is I haven't quite seen things like
Speaker 2: I've seen crashes before. But she thirteen seconds in and
Speaker 2: her crash or losing control happened while she was in
Speaker 2: the air.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so that's what's so puzzling, because it wasn't
Speaker 3: like she was skiing and she was trying to take
Speaker 3: a turn and put too much weight on her injured
Speaker 3: leg and that's what caused the problem.
Speaker 4: No, is she lost control in mid air.
Speaker 2: And again, other folks, the commentators who know more about
Speaker 2: skiing than certainly we do. Certainly I do. You know
Speaker 2: more than I do, but I know even less than that.
Speaker 2: They are noticing or trying and say there was some
Speaker 2: kind of a buckle. It seemed like there was something
Speaker 2: unstable about that knee before she launched it.
Speaker 4: Yes, that would make sense.
Speaker 3: The way she launched off of the knee caused her
Speaker 3: to be unsteady or was not the power she was expecting,
Speaker 3: and that caused her to lose control. But the sad
Speaker 3: thing is this is a one point six mile race.
Speaker 3: I believe she crashed thirteen seconds in. I mean that
Speaker 3: was almost immediately. Look gets bad to crash at any point,
Speaker 3: but that just is tough. She was looking forward to this.
Speaker 3: Her trainer said, they woke up this morning. It's stunningly
Speaker 3: beautiful right now in Italy. It's perfect conditions, blue skies.
Speaker 4: She said. They had music blasting.
Speaker 3: They were feel she had good practice runs and then
Speaker 3: to have it all go down in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 1: It's tough, you know. We she is that fair? Was
Speaker 1: she the story of the Olympics?
Speaker 3: She yes, And a lot of people are already writing
Speaker 3: this that she was the biggest draw, like Michael Phelps
Speaker 3: type of situation where you've got Americans tuning in to
Speaker 3: watch Lindsay Vaughn's so for her to be out, it's
Speaker 3: obviously devastating to her, But it is actually fairly devastating
Speaker 3: to the stories into just the Olympics, at least that sport.
Speaker 2: But isn't this exactly what the Olympics always gives us,
Speaker 2: these stories of incredible comebacks and victory and then the
Speaker 2: most painful heartbreak we will all ever have to witness,
Speaker 2: and we have to witness it live. It was a
Speaker 2: stretch Robes to think that she could meddle right, just
Speaker 2: her getting down the slope. Are you frickin kidding me?
Speaker 2: An ACL? You understand, for everybody understands what that means.
Speaker 2: This knocks pro athletes out. They lose a year of
Speaker 2: their career with this stuff. Yeah, nine days.
Speaker 3: And you can tear your ACL, you can strain your ACL.
Speaker 3: She says, she ruptured gone her ACL. So that's a
Speaker 3: lot different than just having a strain or a pole.
Speaker 3: And she had to have a brace on while she
Speaker 3: was skiing, and look, she said that she had.
Speaker 4: A bruised bone too. I believe.
Speaker 3: I mean, that sounds so incredibly painful. I cannot imagine.
Speaker 3: And then to be able oof to hear her screaming
Speaker 3: when she crashed, it's just it.
Speaker 4: It just makes your heart shrink.
Speaker 2: And it crashed in such a way if you're watching
Speaker 2: it that you lose There was so much snow.
Speaker 1: It was such a violent crash.
Speaker 2: It was so much snow floating up around her that
Speaker 2: you lose sight of her almost in the snow as
Speaker 2: she's crashing. It is a devastating thing to watch. You
Speaker 2: add the whole story to it, Ropes. This was the comeback.
Speaker 2: This wasn't just all we love Lindley Vaughn, but you
Speaker 2: add to it Ropes. She just came out of retirement
Speaker 2: last year for the twenty four twenty five season and
Speaker 2: was good enough that everybody said, oh, oh, here she comes.
Speaker 2: She wants to do the Olympics again. Sure not, She's
Speaker 2: on course. She makes the team. Everybody, she's forty one.
Speaker 2: Folks don't ski like this at forty one, correct, No,
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 3: Not. Your body, Oh, I mean what it takes to
Speaker 3: do what she does at the speeds she does them.
Speaker 3: You need to be in the best shape of your life,
Speaker 3: and that typically happens when folks are in their teens
Speaker 3: in twenties.
Speaker 2: She was crushing it when she was that age, but
Speaker 2: then robes. So just her making the comeback at forty one,
Speaker 2: and being at the Olympics was holy hell. She was
Speaker 2: the story of the Olympics before she ruptured the ACL
Speaker 2: nine days ago.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So you add that to it, you add to the
Speaker 2: fact that she's still out there pushing, she's still going.
Speaker 2: She's had two successful runs ropes. We were primed for
Speaker 2: one of the greatest stories in Olympic history, I know.
Speaker 3: And this was and this was her event. As you
Speaker 3: pointed out, she was the gold medalist. And this is
Speaker 3: her course too, by the way, apparently I don't know.
Speaker 3: She loves this particular course and she felt confident because
Speaker 3: she knows it well. And a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of the skiers say this is such a tough one.
Speaker 3: They don't prefer it. This was her run, and so
Speaker 3: that's what makes it even sadder. She had two more
Speaker 3: events that she was going to hopefully participate in. Obviously
Speaker 3: one would assume that's all shot, she is done, and
Speaker 3: the her Olympic dreams are over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look the knee. We'll hear about the knee.
Speaker 2: And shortly again we just saw her ski for the
Speaker 2: last time. Probably wow, So checking on the knee, but again,
Speaker 2: the rest of her quite frankly, I mean, she took
Speaker 2: them nasty fall.
Speaker 1: She could be injured in some other way, we don't know.
Speaker 2: And again we were trying to get word and we
Speaker 2: delayed hopping on because we wanted to see if we
Speaker 2: can give you that official word on her injuries.
Speaker 1: We are that's it's a tough.
Speaker 4: Grass and I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I haven't gone back and watched it too closely, but
Speaker 3: there were some folks who have already written that it
Speaker 3: appeared she hit her head pretty badly. Now, this is
Speaker 3: why skiers need to wear helmets, because you go down
Speaker 3: and this is packed snow. It's like hitting your head
Speaker 3: on ice almost so Thankfully obviously she had a helmet on,
Speaker 3: but that was a little bit of a concern.
Speaker 4: They said, her head hit pretty hard.
Speaker 2: You know what I learned this. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's new for the Olympics this time around, but robes
Speaker 2: they have a new safety feature. And the commentator explained
Speaker 2: it little air bags in their chest, in their torso
Speaker 2: that the things he said in zero point four to
Speaker 2: five millisec something like that, it inflates when it can
Speaker 2: tell that the skier is in a position they shouldn't
Speaker 2: be in, and can it like an airbag and a
Speaker 2: split second give you a cushion to protect your torso
Speaker 2: and a crash.
Speaker 4: I had no idea I did.
Speaker 1: I just heard about that this morning.
Speaker 3: That is insane, incredible, and I'm surprised that they're able
Speaker 3: to do it aero dynamically because obviously speed is everything,
Speaker 3: and so you wouldn't want to have anything that lags you, Yes,
Speaker 3: but obviously if it protects you, it's a scary thing.
Speaker 3: And by the way, didn't two more women then crash
Speaker 3: after Lindsay. I believe that happens.
Speaker 1: I saw the one at least, but were one and.
Speaker 3: So unfortunately, and they don't think it was the conditions.
Speaker 3: But that kind of thing messes with your head you
Speaker 3: see someone else crash, it just it starts to make
Speaker 3: folks nervous, and so, yes, when Lindsay had gone, no
Speaker 3: one had crashed up until then after she went, two
Speaker 3: more skiers crash.
Speaker 2: And it was some to your points where it was
Speaker 2: something that commentators mentioned several times, like after you see
Speaker 2: someone crash and then you have to go next, it
Speaker 2: could affect your mindset, but it also affect your score,
Speaker 2: like you're backing off a little bit. Even it's not
Speaker 2: just about another crash they done. They absolutely said, it
Speaker 2: gets in your head.
Speaker 3: That makes so much sense. Look just the skiing that
Speaker 3: I've done. I'm not even kidding. When I see someone crash,
Speaker 3: I start to go, oh no, you don't cry. It
Speaker 3: gets in your head, and it's it's a strange thing. Now,
Speaker 3: obviously these are very well trained athletes, some of them professional,
Speaker 3: but it is a bit of a mind game.
Speaker 1: At that point, you didn't want to say the other thing.
Speaker 4: I wanted to say, the mind That's so funny.
Speaker 1: You knew what I was thinking exactly.
Speaker 3: I don't think I should drop the f bom right now.
Speaker 3: It's early, it's Sunday.
Speaker 2: But folks, like we said, this was the biggest draw.
Speaker 2: Lindsay Vaughn is the biggest draw, the biggest story of
Speaker 2: the Olympics, and it was certainly obvious based on who
Speaker 2: was in the crowd when she was racing.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: All right, well continue here on Amy and TJ on
Speaker 2: this Sunday, February eighth. As we were recording, we just
Speaker 2: watched the greatest American skier ever, Lindsay Vaughn, end her
Speaker 2: run at the Olympics and probably end her skiing career
Speaker 2: with a pretty devastating crash robes that she was trying
Speaker 2: to do what many thought impossible, certainly improbable, but just
Speaker 2: that she was out there trying on a ruptured acl
Speaker 2: to compete at the highest level.
Speaker 1: Was it hats off to your system?
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean she gave it her all and went
Speaker 3: on where a lot of people would say, I'm out,
Speaker 3: I'm done, There's no way I can operate in this
Speaker 3: kind of pain. And so yes, at forty one, she
Speaker 3: was trying to be the oldest Olympian or female Olympian
Speaker 3: to medal in downhill skiing, and so she could have
Speaker 3: would have. I mean, her training runs were suggesting she
Speaker 3: was in contention and very well may have. So it's
Speaker 3: just such a sad, sad end you put it like this,
Speaker 3: that is the last time we will likely ever see
Speaker 3: Lindsey Vaughn ski competitively.
Speaker 4: And that's just so sad.
Speaker 1: Not so, but I mean, what a career. She's the
Speaker 1: greatest step.
Speaker 2: She's given us decades of just glory and of wonder
Speaker 2: and amazement and how she attacks, of course, and she's
Speaker 2: known for that. What her sister said it some way,
Speaker 2: she only has one speed, She only knows how to
Speaker 2: go all out. She was out there doing this bravely,
Speaker 2: hats off till you please, anyone stop they're doing it already.
Speaker 2: They were second guessing and questioning whether or not she
Speaker 2: should even go out there, whether she should have a spot,
Speaker 2: whether this was possible. Let the girl be just okay,
Speaker 2: they are criticizing her team. You was saying for letting
Speaker 2: her go for Oh, well come.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just look, I think it's incredible when someone
Speaker 3: wants to do something that's never been done before, and
Speaker 3: then to have to do it on a massive injury.
Speaker 3: That takes a lot of courage. And she was believing
Speaker 3: in herself in that moment. And yeah, she was hoping
Speaker 3: to become the oldest person to win an Olympic medal
Speaker 3: in alpine, so that it was man or woman. So yeah,
Speaker 3: she was doing something that no one had done before.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine at that age with that injury, going
Speaker 3: eighty miles an hour down of course, where you don't
Speaker 3: have control the snow, The ice can absolutely impact. You
Speaker 3: see people crash all the time. So it's just that
Speaker 3: is such a man. I can't imagine skiing with that
Speaker 3: kind of fear, knowing I wasn't at my best.
Speaker 1: It's the pressure on your body.
Speaker 2: It seems like every your pinky toe needs to be
Speaker 2: in the best shape it's ever been to compete at
Speaker 2: this level and to think not just something an.
Speaker 1: Injury or a bruise or strength.
Speaker 2: She had something that devastating and went out there and
Speaker 2: put that strength. She knows what it takes to make
Speaker 2: those turns and to compete. She was willing to do it.
Speaker 2: Then I'll listen to her like yourself out. But today
Speaker 2: and again Rose, we saw her crash this morning. Well
Speaker 2: I saw it happen live.
Speaker 4: Some crazy up earlyarly, but.
Speaker 2: We saw that and then it it pulled at your
Speaker 2: heart a little bit because not long after the crash
Speaker 2: we see either the promos, like the regular promos that
Speaker 2: were scheduled to run.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Lindsay von Rude On Lindsay.
Speaker 2: Vonn was she's such a big part of the promotion
Speaker 2: of the Olympic Games.
Speaker 3: Yes, she's a huge poll As we were talking about,
Speaker 3: she's one of the main reasons why people are tuning
Speaker 3: into these alpine events because they want to see Lindsay
Speaker 3: von Ski and see if she can push herself past
Speaker 3: a point that most people could not.
Speaker 4: But you know what we did have. We did get
Speaker 4: the gold in the event.
Speaker 3: After Lindsay Vaughn was airlifted out, her teammate Breezy Johnson
Speaker 3: won the race. She is now the first American since
Speaker 3: Lindsay Vonn in twenty ten to win that Olympic gold
Speaker 3: in the downhill race.
Speaker 2: So it happens on this day that Lindsay crashes tough.
Speaker 2: It's tough, it's poetic, it's it's it's a handing off
Speaker 2: of the guard, it's it's a it's it's my god.
Speaker 2: What Lindsay Vaughn has given this country over the years
Speaker 2: has been pretty special. We are not the greatest skiing
Speaker 2: country in the world.
Speaker 4: We're not.
Speaker 3: Maybe the Swedes and the Norwegians they might have a
Speaker 3: few on us.
Speaker 2: We name all the skiers, right, MICHAELA. Schiffriend you got
Speaker 2: body Miller, I remember just off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's Lindsay von It's Linda.
Speaker 2: She's our superstar, and she's our superstar and other superstars
Speaker 2: come to see her.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 2: I know we see Snoop Dogg floating around all over
Speaker 2: the Olympics. But you know, it's a big event. If
Speaker 2: he shows up at it, and he was. He was
Speaker 2: sitting out there Nicole today in his.
Speaker 4: Big white puffy jacket. Hilarious. I loved it. I want
Speaker 4: to I want to get that jacket.
Speaker 2: Everything he wears at the Olympics should be online and
Speaker 2: be sold.
Speaker 3: It's true they it would sell out immediately. He was
Speaker 3: rocking it with that. I don't know what it was,
Speaker 3: some white surple looking killing big every chuffy jacket.
Speaker 1: I loved it every time.
Speaker 2: But he was out there, but this crowd was massive,
Speaker 2: but sitting in those stands and everybody fell silent, and
Speaker 2: they kept showing the looks on people's faces.
Speaker 1: And again this went for a long time.
Speaker 4: This was thirty minutes, thirty minute delay, thirty minute delay.
Speaker 3: Yes, if you go online and just they actually have
Speaker 3: photo galleries of all the shocked and sad faces in
Speaker 3: the crowd, people reacting and concerned for her safety in
Speaker 3: that moment too.
Speaker 4: It was quite the crash.
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, snow everywhere, but there are just these
Speaker 3: stunning images of everyone, including snooped out dog's face when
Speaker 3: they saw Lindsay crash.
Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on this today.
Speaker 2: Not sure we have gotten no indication of when we
Speaker 2: might get an official update, but as now, as of
Speaker 2: this recording, as of this morning at least East coast time,
Speaker 2: we haven't gotten one yet, but just wanted to hop
Speaker 2: on and give that update. I know a lot of people.
Speaker 2: This is the one thing people were waiting on. Even
Speaker 2: if you didn't know when she was skating excuse me skiing,
Speaker 2: you knew it was coming up. Everybody wants this update,
Speaker 2: so we thought it was important to hop on. So
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Speaker 1: I'm t J. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robot.
Speaker 1: Will talk to y'all soon