Lindsey Vonn's bid to defy the odds and win a medal in her likely fifth and final Winter Olympics ended in awful scenes as she crashed early in her Women's Downhill run on Sunday.

The American skiing legend Lindsey Vonn, who had ruptured her ACL, crashed after her injured left leg gave way after she caught her shoulder on a gate during a Winter Olympics downhill event in Cortin...

On Sunday, however, in her first event in Milan she crashed again after clipping one of the gates and needed treatment on the slopes