Lindsey Vonn undergoes surgery for leg fracture after hard crash during Olympic run

A helicopter was dispatched to whisk Vonn off the mountain. She was taken to a clinic in Cortina, then transferred to a hospital in Treviso.

The Ca'Foncello hospital released a statement on Vonn, saying she was being "treated by a multidisciplinary team. The U.S. Ski Team said Vonn was "in stable condition and in good hands with a team of American and Italian physicians."

"She'll be OK, but it's going to be a bit of a process," U.S. Ski and Snowboard's chief of sport Anouk Patty said. "This sport's brutal and people need to remember when they're watching (that) these athletes are throwing themselves down a mountain and going really, really fast."

"I don't claim to know what she's going through, but I do know what it is to be here, to be fighting for the Olympics, and to have this course burn you and to watch those dreams die," said Johnson, who missed out on the 2022 Games due to a knee injury. "I can't imagine the pain that she's going through and it's not the physical pain - we can deal with physical pain - but the emotional pain is something else."

International Ski and Snowboard Federation president Johan Eliasch called Vonn's crash "tragic, but it's ski racing."

"I can only say thank you for what she has done for our sport," he said, "because this race has been the talk of the games and it's put our sport in the best possible light."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.