Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo shared a comforting and motivational message with Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who was discharged from hospital on Monday after undergoing multiple surgeries on her broken left foot following a crash at the recently concluded Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina.

Vonn, 41, a gold-medal winner at the 2010 Winter Olympics, underwent a six-hour leg reconstruction surgery and shared details with her 3.6 million Instagram followers. “After almost two weeks of laying in a hospital bed almost completely immobile, I’m finally well enough to move to a hotel. It’s not home yet, but it’s a huge step. It will take around a year for all the bones to heal and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not, then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL,” said Vonn in a lengthy video message that received nearly six lakh ‘likes’.