United Kingdom, Feb. 19 -- Lindsey Vonn's beloved dog died just a day after her horror crash at the Winter Olympics.

The 41-year-old ski racer was airlifted to hospital after she fell on the slopes during the women's downhill final at the Milan-Cortina Games on February 8 and she subsequently underwent four surgeries to repair a complex tibia fracture in her left leg - and Lindsey has now revealed she faced further agony as she lay in her hospital bed in Italy as she had to say goodbye to her pet pooch Leo.

In a post on Instagram, she wrote: "Leo has passed away and joined Lucy and Bear up in heaven. This has been an incredibly hard few days. Probably the hardest of my life. I still have not come to terms that he is gone ...

"The day I...