Extra heartbreak for Lindsey Vonn. Skier reveals canine died day after Olympic crash

Lindsey Vonn returned house to extra heartbreak.

The Olympic skier shared the heartbreaking information that her canine Leo died final week, simply someday after her devastating downhill crash in Cortina.

“The day I crashed, so did Leo,” Vonn wrote on Instagram.

“He had been just lately identified with lung most cancers (he survived lymphoma a yr and a half in the past) however now his coronary heart was failing him. He was in ache and his physique may now not sustain along with his sturdy thoughts.”

Vonn stated she needed to say goodbye to her 13-year-old pup long-distance whereas caught within the hospital recovering.

“As I [laid] in my hospital mattress the day after my crash, we stated goodbye to my massive boy,” her heartbreaking word continued.

Leo and Vonn had been by lots. The Olympian stated her canine had comforted her by her second ACL damage and cuddled up on the couch the place she watched the Sochi Olympics.

“I’ll love you eternally my massive boy,” she stated, ending her caption for a submit stuffed up photographs of Leo.

Vonn shared the replace from the U.S., which she had simply returned to after per week of restoration in Italy. She shared the tragic information of Leo’s loss of life as she prepares for a forth surgical procedure on her leg.

AP photojournalist Jacquelyn Martin explains her place on the course, her split-second response, and the way she captured the uncommon sequence of Lindsey Vonn’s crash throughout the Olympic downhill in Cortina.