Lindsey Vonn focuses on ‘getting healthy’ after devastating Injury

Lindsey Vonn said she is “finally home” and turning her full attention to recovery nearly a month after a devastating crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The 41-year-old Olympian shares an update on Instagram on Sunday, March 1, posting photos of herself on the couch with her bandaged left leg stretched out while cuddling her dog, Chance.

“Home sweet home. Feels good to sleep in my own bed…” Vonn writes, adding that she is taking “some time” for herself as she heals from a complex tibia fracture sustained during the Feb. 8 crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Vonn acknowledges that returning home presents both emotional and physical challenges. She reflects on the absence of her dog Leo, who died one day after her crash.

“Wheeling through the front door without Leo greeting me like always was a very hard reality,” she writes. “A reality I had to face along with many other hard realities that lay in front of me as I move forward…”

The skiing champion says her focus now is squarely on rehabilitation.

“I’m focused on therapy and getting healthy,” she explains. “It’s going to be a hard and painful journey but I am putting all of my energy into it, like I always do.”

She adds that she plans to step back from public life temporarily. “I’m going to take some time for myself. I’ll give you updates when I can, but right now my focus is on taking care of myself.”

Vonn suffers the injury during the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Games, clipping a gate just 13 seconds into her run and crashing hard onto the course. 

The incident comes one week after she tears her ACL at a World Cup race in Switzerland.

Following the fall, she is airlifted to a hospital in Treviso, Italy, where surgeons stabilize the fracture in her left leg.

In a separate Instagram Story posted Sunday, Vonn shares an image of her bandaged leg resting on an exercise ball, writing, “And just like that … all my muscles are gone.”

Despite the severity of her injuries, Vonn maintains she has “no regrets.”

“My Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” she writes in a post shared the day after the crash. 

“While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets.”

“I also knew that racing was a risk,” she adds. “I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”