World Cup ski champion and Vail resident Lindsey Vonn was taken to the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic on Wednesday after injuring herself in a fall during a morning training run in Copper Mountain.

Vonn suffered a bruised left knee but no ligament or cartilage damage, said Richard Quincy, the U.S. Ski Team's medical director. Vonn was examined by William Sterett, the women's alpine team's doctor.

"What's going to happen is over the next couple of days she'll get treated for her inflammation on her knee, and we'll know more in the next few days," U.S. Ski Team spokesman Doug Haney said.

No return has been set for Vonn, but Haney called the magnetic resonance imaging exam results, "a good, good sign."

Vonn, who was unavailable for comment, was recovering at her Copper Mountain hotel.

She was training on a well-lit, well- conditioned Super-G course when she fell and injured her left knee.

"There was nothing really spectacular about it, it was really just a fluke fall," Haney said.

Last season, Vonn became the first American woman to win the overall World Cup title since Tamara McKinney in 1983. This season, Vonn burst out of the gates with her first victory in a World Cup slalom, winning the event Saturday in Levi, Finland.

The slalom win indicated Vonn, who typically specializes in speed events, was ready to showcase her abilities in technical slalom and giant slalom racing.

Vonn has shown toughness in the face of injury before. While training for tech events after winning two silver medals at the World Championships in Are, Sweden, in March 2007, Vonn hurt her knee and missed the rest of the season.

She came back last season to win six World Cup races and the overall title. She injured her back while training at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Sestriere, Italy, but returned for top-10 finishes in the downhill and super-G.