The United States Ski and Snowboard Team provided a health update for Mikaela Shiffrin on Sunday after she suffered multiple injuries during a crash in a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont.
According to the update, Shiffrin suffered "a puncture wound into the right side of her abdomen and severe muscle trauma."
However, there was no noticeable ligament damage and her "bones and internal organs look OK."
The update also said there is no set timetable on her return and more information will be released accordingly.
The latest information from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team comes after Shiffrin herself provided an update Saturday.
She said there was "not really too much cause for concern at this point. I just can't move. I have a pretty good abrasion and something stabbed me."
Shiffrin also said she was "so sorry to scare everybody."
The crash came during her second run of the World Cup giant slalom race. She was leading after the first run and appeared well on her way to the 100th World Cup win of her career. She was also near the finish line on the second run when the crash occurred.
"Shiffrin stayed down on the edge of the course for quite some time as the ski patrol attended to her," Peggy Shinn of the Associated Press noted. "She was taken off the hill on a sled and waved to the cheering crowd before going to a clinic for evaluation."
Sweden's Sara Hector won the race, while Croatia's Zrinka Ljutić and Switzerland's Camille Rast took home second and third, respectively.
"It's just so sad, of course, to see Mikaela crash like that and skiing so well," Hector said on the broadcast (h/t Shinn). "It breaks my heart and everybody else here."
Shiffrin is arguably the greatest skier of all time with a resume that includes two Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, five overall World Cup titles and seven world championships. She passed Lindsey Vonn's women's record of 82 World Cup victories in January 2023 and then broke Ingemar Stenmark's overall record when she won her 87th title.
She also rarely doesn't finish a race.
As Shinn noted, she DNF's just 18 times in 274 World Cup starts and hadn't done so since January 2018.
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