Mikaela Shiffrin has deep puncture wound to stomach after scary crash

Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a deep puncture wound to her stomach and “extreme muscle trauma” throughout her crash in a race on Saturday however she escaped severe bone, ligament or organ injury.

The five-time general World Cup champion is sidelined for the Killington Cup slalom race on Sunday. There is no such thing as a timetable for her return to competitors, the US Ski Crew mentioned in an announcement.

“Following her crash in yesterday’s big slalom on the Stifel Killington Cup, Mikaela was taken down by sled and transferred by ambulance to be evaluated at Rutland Regional Medical Heart,” the US Ski Crew mentioned. “There was no ligament injury assessed. Bones and inside organs look OK. There’s a puncture wound into the fitting facet of her stomach and extreme muscle trauma.”

Shiffrin was main after the primary run of the large slalom on Saturday as she chased her a centesimal World Cup win. With the end line in sight on her second run, the 29-year-old leaned into the hill, misplaced an edge and slid right into a gate, flipping head over skis. She then slammed into one other gate earlier than coming to a cease within the protecting fencing.

Shiffrin stayed down on the facet of the course for fairly a while. She requested for a sled to take her down the mountain, as a result of she “was in shock, solely unable to maneuver and nervous about inside organ trauma,” Shiffrin mentioned in an announcement.

Shiffrin was transported by ambulance to a medical heart, the place she mentioned medical doctors determined to not sew the stomach wound as a result of it’s “too deep and there may be danger of an infection,” Shiffrin defined.

Shiffrin has rehabbed from two earlier on-hill accidents throughout her 14-year profession: 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 harm required surgical procedure, and each occasions, Shiffrin was again to racing inside two months.

Sore from the crash, Shiffrin gained’t attend the slalom on Sunday – a race she has dominated. Shiffrin has gained six of the seven occasions she competed within the slalom at Killington. She is a fan favourite on the venue after rising up in New Hampshire and Colorado and sharpening her expertise on the close by Burke Mountain Academy.

“She will be able to’t stroll very nicely proper now, so she will be able to’t get to the venue although she is dying to cheer for her teammates in individual,” the assertion from the crew mentioned. “She will probably be cheering loudly from her place in Killington.”