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USA skier Nina O'Brien falls in the second run of the women's giant slalom during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images) (JOE KLAMAR via Getty Images)
American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin was stretchered off the course following a crash while competing in the annual Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2024/25. Shiffrin, 29, is already the most ...
Mikaela Shiffrin avoided serious injury Friday when she crashed into the safety nets during a World Cup downhill run on the course that will also host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Lost pressure under one ski and crashed after clearing the knoll, landing on his head and back from a height of 6 m (20 ft). Inrun speed was 100.4 km/h (62.4 mph). Recovered well enough win a silver medal with the Austrian national team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , but retired at the end of the season.
All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin said she suffered an abrasion on her left hip and that something “stabbed” her when she crashed during her second run of a World Cup giant slalom race Saturday, doing a flip and sliding into the protective fencing.
A month later, Shiffrin took the slalom bronze medal at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships held at Crans-Montana, Switzerland (after having been down with a stomach virus the day before). [21] In January 2015, Shiffrin named Croatian former ski racer Janica Kostelić and American Bode Miller as her idols while growing up.
YANQING, China — U.S. skier Nina O’Brien suffered an open fracture of her left tibia and fibula in a frightening crash during Monday’s Olympic giant slalom, a U.S. ski team spokeswoman said ...