(NEXSTAR) – Olympian Lindsey Vonn has spoken out after a harrowing crash required her to be airlifted to a hospital in Italy, saying she has "no regrets" despite now requiring "multiple surgeries." Vonn, 41, was only seconds into her downhill skiing race on Sunday when she clipped a gate with her right shoulder. The collision caused Vonn to pinwheel down the slope, ending on her back with her skis crisscrossed below her. Her screams could be heard ringing out shortly after medical personnel arrived. In a post to Instagram on Monday, Vonn wrote, "Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would." She explained that "in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches." "I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever," Vonn wrote. She had been skiing on a rebuilt right knee and a badly injured left knee. Vonn said she suffered a complex tibia fracture, which is "stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly." The hospital late Sunday released a statement saying Vonn had undergone surgery on her left leg and the U.S. Ski Team said she was in stable condition. There have not been any other updates since. Still, "despite the intense physical pain it caused," four-time overall World Cup champion wrote that she has "no regrets." "Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport." Vonn stunned everyone when she returned to elite ski racing last season after nearly six years. She quickly became a contender and arrived in Italy as the leader in the World Cup downhill standings and was a gold-medal favorite before her crash in Switzerland last month. “This would be the best comeback I’ve done so far,” Vonn said before the race. “Definitely the most dramatic.” In addition to a ruptured ACL, she also had a bone bruise and meniscus damage. "I tried. I dreamt. I jumped," she wrote on Monday. "I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying." Vonn's father, Alan Kildow, told The Associated Press on Monday that he wants his daughter to retire. “She’s 41 years old and this is the end of her career,” Alan Kildow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “There will be no more ski races for Lindsey Vonn, as long as I have anything to say about it.” Kildow and the rest of Vonn’s family watched the crash from the finish area with all of the other spectators. “First, the shock and the horror of the whole thing, seeing a crash like that,” Kildow said of what he felt watching the scene unfold. “It can be dramatic and traumatic. You’re just horrified at what those kinds of impacts have. You can go into a shock an emotional psychological shock. Because it’s difficult to just accept what’s happened." Vonn will not return to the Olympics to cheer on teammates or for anything else, Kildow said. In Vonn's absence on Sunday, her teammate Breezy Johnson won the Olympic downhill, becoming just the second American to do so. It was, of course, Vonn who did it first, 16 years ago. The Associated Press contributed to this report.