Lindsey Vonn returned residence to extra heartbreak.
The Olympic skier shared the heartbreaking information that her canine Leo died final week, simply sooner or later after her devastating downhill crash in Cortina.
“The day I crashed, so did Leo,” Vonn wrote on Instagram.
“He had been lately recognized 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 might now not sustain together with his robust 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 via loads. The Olympian stated her canine had comforted her via her second ACL damage and cuddled up on the couch the place she watched the Sochi Olympics.
“I’ll love you ceaselessly my massive boy,” she stated, ending her caption for a submit crammed up photographs of Leo.
Vonn shared the replace from the U.S., which she had simply returned to after every 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.
