Lindsey Vonn reunites with dog Chance, opens up about injury recovery

Olympic medal-winning alpine skier Lindsey Vonn has received a monumental amount of support following the devastating injury she suffered at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

So, when she was able to get home and hold her other dog, Chance, she became emotional. Vonn shared the moment on social media.

‘Reunited with Chance,’ Vonn said in the caption of an Instagram post that featured a video of her and her furry friend. ‘Had a pretty hard day yesterday, everything just really hit me hard and I broke down. I know there will be a lot of days like this… the internal mental battle has just begun but moments like this help me so much. Just miss my boy Leo…’

Her injury is not something that Vonn will get over immediately. Instead, she said, she is taking things ‘one day at a time.’

Leo, who lost a battle to lung cancer after surviving lymphoma a year-and-a-half ago, was the second dog of Vonn’s to die since last spring. He was 13.

Lucy, another pet of Vonn’s, this one a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, died right after World Cup finals on March 30, 2025, due to kidney failure. Lucy was 9 years old.

Lindsey Vonn skiing history

Vonn, 41, was born and raised in Minnesota.

Her family moved to Colorado in the late 1990s when Vonn was a teenager.

She would go on to become recognized as one of best and most accomplished American alpine skiers. She won four World Cup championships (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012).

Vonn is a five-time Olympian and gold medalist having won the top honor in the downhill event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She placed third and was awarded bronze that year in the Super-G event. She won another bronze medal in the downhill event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games in South Korea.