DOBBIACO, Italy — It sounds completely absurd to ski race without an ACL, which Lindsey Vonn says she will attempt to do at these Olympics.

Lindsey Vonn’s decision to compete in Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Olympics, despite a torn ACL, is risky but not unexpected, experts in orthopedics and sports medicine said.

Vonn said on Tuesday she “completed ruptured” her ACL, has bone bruising “plus meniscal damage.”