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“I initially thought it was going to be worse. There was just so much pain, I couldn’t quite tell where it was coming from,” said Vonn, who found out the extent of her injuries “within five minutes” of getting to the hospital.

In addition to the romantic skulduggery and being elite athletes, the knee injury may be yet another point of bonding for Woods and Vonn, who told the Denver Post they met while her brother was giving skiing lessons to Tiger’s children with ex-wife Elin Nordegren.

In 2008, Woods had to rehab a knee injury that had him memorably wincing on the golf course. So Tiger knows how to rehab a knee while romancing the ladies, as he was in the throes of a double life that resulted in Nordegren’s divorcing Woods once the bimbos started erupting like nuisance gophers on a golf course.

C.J. can be reached at cj@startribune.com and seen on Fox 9’s “Buzz.”