KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin stated she suffered an abrasion on her left hip and that one thing “stabbed” her when she crashed throughout her second run of a World Cup large slalom race Saturday, doing a flip and sliding into the protecting fencing.
Shiffrin stayed down on the sting of the course for fairly a while because the ski patrol attended to her. She was taken off the hill on a sled and waved to the cheering crowd earlier than going to a clinic for analysis.
“Not actually an excessive amount of trigger for concern at this level, I simply can’t transfer,” she stated later in a video posted on social media. “I’ve a reasonably good abrasion and one thing stabbed me. … I’m so sorry to scare everyone. It appears like all scans to date are clear.”
She plans to skip the slalom race Sunday, writing on Instagram she will probably be “cheering from the sideline.”
The 29-year-old was main after the primary run of the GS and charging for her one hundredth World Cup win. She was nearby of the end line, 5 gates onto Killington’s steep end pitch, when she an outdoor edge. She hit a gate and did a somersault earlier than sliding into one other gate. The fencing slowed her momentum as she got here to an abrupt cease.
Reigning Olympic GS champion Sara Hector of Sweden received in a mixed time of 1 minute, 53.08 seconds. Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia was second and Swiss racer Camille Rast took third. The Americans noticed Paula Moltzan and Nina O’Brien end fifth and sixth.
“It’s simply so unhappy, in fact, to see Mikaela crash like that and snowboarding so nicely,” Hector stated on the published after her win. “It breaks my coronary heart and everyone else right here.”
The crash was a shock for everybody. Shiffrin not often DNFs — ski racing parlance for “didn’t end.” In 274 World Cup begins, she DNF’d solely 18 instances. The final time she DNF’d in GS was January 2018.
Shiffrin additionally has not suffered any devastating accidents. In her 14-year profession, she has rehabbed solely two on-hill accidents: a torn medial collateral ligament and bone bruising in her proper knee in December 2015 and a sprained MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her left knee after a downhill crash in January 2024. Neither knee damage required surgical procedure, and each instances, Shiffrin was again to racing inside two months.
Saturday was shaping as much as be a banner day for Shiffrin, who skied flawlessly within the first run and held a 0.32-second lead as she chased after her one hundredth World Cup win. Shiffrin, who grew up in each New Hampshire and Colorado and sharpened her expertise at close by Burke Mountain Academy, has lengthy been a fan favourite.
Shiffrin is pushed not a lot by wins however by arcing the right run. She has shattered so many data alongside the best way. She handed Lindsey Vonn’s girls’s mark of 82 World Cup victories on Jan. 24, 2023, throughout an enormous slalom in Kronplatz, Italy.
That March, Shiffrin broke Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark’s Alpine mark for many World Cup wins when she captured her 87th profession race.
To date, she has earned 5 total World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals — together with a silver — and 7 world championships.
In different FIS Alpine World Cup information, the Tremblant World Cup — two girls’s large slaloms at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant scheduled for subsequent weekend — have been canceled. Killington acquired 21 inches of snow on Thanksgiving Day, however Tremblant — 5 hours north of Killington — needed to cancel its races due to a scarcity of snow.
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AP Sports Writer Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report.
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