Skip to content
Sports
Link copied to clipboard

Vonn suffers a fracture in knee in super-G crash

Lindsey Vonn suffered a minor fracture in her left knee Saturday during a World Cup super-G crash in El Tarter, Andorra, but didn't rule out her start in a combined event the next day.

Lindsey Vonn

suffered a minor fracture in her left knee Saturday during a World Cup super-G crash in El Tarter, Andorra, but didn't rule out her start in a combined event the next day.

"Got caught in the soft snow today and crashed pretty hard," Vonn wrote on Facebook. "I will wait and see how I feel tomorrow to decide if I can race." Vonn appeared on the start list for the super-G portion of Sunday's combined event, released by the International Ski Federation.

Chasing her fifth title, Vonn was leading the overall World Cup standings going into the race, 23 points ahead of Lara Gut.

SOCCER The Union capped their 2016 preseason by beating Toronto FC, 1-0, on Saturday, finishing play at the Suncoast Invitational tournament in St. Petersberg, Fla.

C.J. Sapong scored the game-winning goal in the 60th minute after intercepting a bad pass from the Toronto defense. Andre Blake earned his first shutout of the year as Toronto put five shots on goal.

The Union's regular season kicks off next Sunday against FC Dallas.

MLB Cleveland Indians outfielder Abraham Almonte accepted responsibility for the failed drug test that got him suspended for 80 games, but said he didn't know how an illegal substance got into his body.

"As a grown man, I'm taking all the responsibility for whatever was found in my body," Almonte said, a day after his penalty was announced. "I'm just trying to think and figure out what it is."

NFL Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones pulled his hamstring during his second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine and withdrew from drills in Indianapolis before the throwing portion began.

The 6-foot-5, 253-pound Jones posted an unofficial time of 4.83 seconds in his first attempt. He grimaced as he was finishing his second. His official time was 4.81, which ranked 10th among 17 quarterbacks.

After NFL Network reported he was done for the day he was shown sitting on the bench icing his right hamstring.

Earlier in the workout, Jones turned in a 36-inch vertical jump, which tied with Memphis' Paxton Lynch for best among quarterbacks.

CYCLING American Evelyn Stevens shattered one of cycling's most revered marks - the hour record - by riding just under 30 miles at the Olympic Training Center Velodrome in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Stevens covered 47.98 kilometers, passing the unified mark of 46.833 kilometers set by Bridie O'Donnell last month and nearly eclipsed Jeannie Longo's mark of 48.149 set in 1996.

Longo's distance, referred to as the "best human effort," was set using a "superwoman" position no longer allowed under current hour-record rules.

- Staff and wire reports