Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a puncture wound in the right side of her abdomen and severe muscle trauma in a Saturday giant slalom crash.
She did not have ligament damage, and her bones and internal organs look OK, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard.
Shiffrin said Sunday that she expects to be out for more than two weeks based on the timelines of her previous muscle strains and spasms.
“It’s muscle tearing, so it’s like the most severe kind of muscle spasm you could imagine,” she said on NBC Sports. “So that’s going to be longer than two weeks. ... Right now, I’m pretty limited in doing anything, but we’ll see how it goes the next couple days, and try to make it happen as quick as possible.”
In a video posted about three hours after the crash, Shiffrin showed the puncture wound being treated.
Shiffrin, the first-run leader in Saturday’s race, was about 12 seconds from the finish line of her second and final run when she slipped coming around a gate, slid through a gate, somersaulted, had one ski detach and spun around before sliding into safety netting at the side boundary of the course.
“It was really awkward looking,” Shiffrin said Sunday, “and I feel a lot better now than I did on the hill.”
Sara Hector of Sweden won Saturday’s GS. Swiss Camille Rast won Sunday’s slalom in Shiffrin’s absence.
Shiffrin won the two World Cup races before Killington to reach 99 World Cup victories. Shiffrin is already the only Alpine skier to win more than 86 World Cups.
Next weekend’s women’s World Cup GS races originally scheduled for Tremblant, Canada, were canceled earlier Saturday due to lack of snow.
As of now, the next scheduled women’s World Cup stop is in Beaver Creek, Colorado, for a downhill and super-G on Dec. 14-15.
