Lindsey Vonn shares emotions post for dog who died day after Olympics crash

As if Lindsey Vonn hadn’t been by sufficient, the skier introduced on Wednesday that her beloved canine, Leo, had handed away.

Leo died a day after Vonn crashed throughout a run on the Milan Cortina Olympics, which has already led to 4 extra seemingly surgical procedures.

“9-02-2026 Leo handed away. The day after my crash, I stated goodbye to my massive boy as I lay in my hospital mattress,” stated Vonn. “These have been a number of the hardest days of my life and I nonetheless have not began to course of his passing… I’ll at all times love you Leo.”

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Lindsey Vonn throughout the Winter Olympics on February 22, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Tom Pennington/Getty Photographs)

Vonn stated Leo was affected by lung most cancers and she or he had owned him for 13 years.

Vonn suffered a significant Olympic heartbreak on February 8 when she broke her leg badly crash in girls’s alpine snowboarding earlier on the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games. She tried to push by a torn ACL to make the rostrum, however the newest damage set her again additional.

She suffered the ACL damage throughout a observe session only a week earlier than the Video games.

Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course throughout the official downhill coaching for girls’s alpine snowboarding on the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on February 6, 2026. (AP Photograph/Marco Trovati)

“I have not stood on my toes in over every week… been mendacity immobile in a hospital mattress since my race. And whereas I am unable to stand but, it feels nice to be again on dwelling soil,” she wrote in a publish on X earlier this week.

“An enormous thanks to everybody in Italy for taking such excellent care of me.”

Vonn, 41, needed to be flown off an Italian mountain throughout her downhill race in a terrifying scene.

Earlier than the Video games began, many questioned how Vonn would proceed to ski her torn cruciate ligamenthowever she was decided to try to medal in her signature occasion. Her runs on Friday and Saturday went nicely, however she misplaced management after a couple of seconds after which issues obtained very critical.

Lindsey Vonn is airlifted after a crash throughout the 2026 Winter Olympics, Sunday, February 8, 2026. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Vonn stated final week that she had no regrets determination to race.

Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos and Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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