Alpine skiing-Shiffrin 'sore' but avoids serious injury after Cortina d'Ampezzo crash

When she did get up, Shiffrin limped off gingerly using her poles and was unable to exert pressure on her left leg. Austria's Stephanie Venier finished 39 hundredths of a second ahead of Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami for her second World Cup win.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin was airlifted away following a high-speed crash on Friday that occurred on the same piste that will be home to the women's downhill at Italy's Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics. Shiffrin, owner of a record 95 World Cup wins, lost control near the top of the course and her arms flailed as she landed in a patch of soft snow before slamming into the safety net. She appears, however, to have avoided serious injury.

"Very thankful it's not worse, but I'm pretty sore at the moment," Shiffrin posted on Instagram along with a picture that showed her on a bed with a bag of ice on her lower left leg. "I won't be skiing the rest of this weekend, and I won't be skiing (next week) in Kromplatz. Beyond that, it's quite hard to say right now. Need a little time to process with my team and see how everything is feeling in the coming days!"

Shiffrin's team said in an earlier statement that the 28-year-old was taken by ambulance to the clinic in Cortina where she was evaluated for a left leg injury and that initial analysis showed the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments seemed intact. One of Shiffrin's skis came off during the crash and she remained down for about 10 minutes while being attended to by medics. When she did get up, Shiffrin limped off gingerly using her poles and was unable to exert pressure on her left leg.

Austria's Stephanie Venier finished 39 hundredths of a second ahead of Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami for her second World Cup win. Canada's Valerie Grenier, Austria's Christina Ager and Italy's Sofia Goggia shared third place.