On Nov. 30, Shiffrin crashed in a giant slalom run in Killington, Vermont, while bidding to become the first Alpine skier to reach 100 World Cup victories. She tumbled over and sustained a puncture wound seven centimeters deep into the right side of her abdomen, tearing into her external and internal oblique muscles.

With injured slalom stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova missing, Liensberger had a free-flowing run under the floodlights to build a big lead of 0.75 seconds over Wendy Holdener of Switzerland. Olympic giant slalom champion Sara Hector of Sweden ...

The Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will not be competing at the World Championships in Austria next month. The athlete is currently recuperating from a

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the World Championships in Austria next month, with the Slovak racer still recovering from a knee injury she suffered a year ago. Vlhova, Mikaela Shiffrin's big rival for the slalom and overall World Cup Alpine ski titles,