Mikaela Shiffrin will not defend the title of giant slalom in the Alpine Fis ski championship, citing the SSPT of Crash

The skier of Team USA Mikaela Shiffrin will not defend her giant gold medal in slalom at the Alpine FIS 2025 world championship, which takes place this week. Shiffrin announced the news with a Instagram post On Monday, saying that she lived a “mental struggle / SSPT” in the event.

Shiffrin Essayed on the giant slalom during the Killington Cup in Vermont At the end of November. The accident left him a deep injury in his abdomen and a serious muscle trauma.

“Honestly, I really didn’t expect to live as much of this kind of mental control / SSPT in GS of my injury to Killington,” wrote Shiffrin in the post on Monday. “As always, I tried to dive into the challenge, hoping to get there by the worlds. I thought that my passion and my desire to compete would prevail over the mental barriers. Maybe this will be the case Over time, but I am not there yet.

“One of my teammates – who knows this experience well – said that the only thing you can do is continue to try. This is what I will do.”

Shiffrin said that now that she was not doing a giant slalom, she will join Team USA for the team combined by team, which takes place on Tuesday.

The Shiffrin accident occurred while she was on the verge of her historic 100th IF victory. For the moment, she sits at 99 victories – always a record number in sport.

Shiffrin said The Associated Press On Monday, she had thought that she would go after a practice in Europe, but found that it was not the case. The competition, which takes place in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, began last Tuesday, with the giant female event in slalom which should take place next Thursday.

“I thought that once we have touched the ground in Europe and we were lucky to obtain repetitive training days, I would be able to improve step by step and in a way the passion And the desire for the race would prevail over any fear that I had, “Shiffrin said.

The world championships take place every two years; Shiffrin won gold at the event in 2023, also winning money at Home in slalom and super-G.

After the fall in Killington, Shiffrin published a video On social networks, where she said that she was fine and that there was “not really too much concern at this stage”. But the injury was more serious than it could have let pass. The stab wound that she suffered from the fall almost pierced her abdominal wall and her colon, and was “a millimeter of pretty catastrophic”, according to the Associated Press.

Shiffrin returned to the race on January 30 with a slalom race in Courchevel, in France, where she finished in 10th place.

After the world championships, there are five other competitions on the circuit for the IF 2024-2025 season, ending with a competition in the Sun Valley of Idaho from March 22 to 27. We do not know what are Shiffrin’s plans for these final competitions, and if she still tries for her 100th victory before the end of the season.