Featured Image: Mikaela Shiffrin. Credit: GEPA
This morning, Mikaela Shiffrin of the Stifel US Ski Team announced her return to the World Cup stage on Instagram, with her participation in the slalom race in Courchevel on January 30th.
The 29-year-old superstar was going for her 100th World Cup win during the giant slalom on November 30 in Killington, Vermont, when she had a nasty crash in her second run. Shiffrin sped over a gate and ended up in the netting, injuring her oblique muscle.
After the crash, Shiffrin stated, “It is a deep puncture wound with quite a lot of severe muscle trauma. I was really lucky because it was probably like a millimeter from my colon.”
She had to have surgery which involved clearing the fluid and addressing torn muscle near her pelvis. It has been a longer process of recovery than her and her team had anticipated.
Nevertheless, she has remained positive throughout the recovery and continued to state that luck was on her side. She explained, “There’s a fair amount of luck involved. On one hand, you create your own luck through preparation and hard work. On the other hand, I have gratitude for not going through that gate with my neck or having the impact hit my colon.”
Read the exclusive interview with Shiffrin during her recovery.
The anticipation radiates as Shiffrin makes her comeback to the World Cup circuit!
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