The mood in Lindsey Vonn’s camp leading up to the Milan Cortina Olympics has taken a turn. Where before there was only excitement, now there are nerves.
“Things changed a little bit this week,” Martina Sailer, the daughter of Vonn’s childhood coach and mentor Erich Sailer and a longtime family friend, said with a nervous chuckle during a phone interview this week with The Post.
It’s only natural after the 41-year-old, who is in the middle of an Olympic comeback that has captivated the world, completely ruptured her ACL in her left knee during her final downhill tune-up on Jan. 30 and had to be airlifted off the course in Crans-Montana. The three-time Olympic medalist’s status for the Games was immediately thrown into question.
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