Mikaela Shiffrin on Wednesday said she was happy to be home and resting after sustaining a puncture wound in her abdomen and severe muscle trauma during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont, last weekend.
Shiffrin was chasing a milestone 100th win after setting the fastest time on her first run but, with the finish line in sight, she caught an edge that sent one ski flying as she tumbled and crashed into the safety netting.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist remained down for several minutes before being taken on a sled to a medical clinic.
"I'm so excited to be home now and sleep in my own bed," Shiffrin said in a video posted to Instagram in which she confirmed she would not compete at Beaver Creek this weekend.
The 29-year-old said the wound to the right side of her abdomen did not impact her colon as had been originally feared.
"Whatever stabbed in there did a little dancy dance inside of my obliques and basically tore a cavern into my oblique muscles, so that's what's causing bleeding, and inflammation and just pain in general," she said.
Shiffrin was sidelined six weeks after injuring her knee in a high-speed crash in January while competing in a World Cup downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo and subsequently dropped the discipline from her schedule.
"This is another fairly ambiguous injury and really hard to put a timeline of when I'll be either be back on snow or back to racing," she said. "... I'm really looking forward to cheering my teammates on racing Beaver Creek."
The American became the most successful Alpine skier in World Cup history when she topped retired Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record 86 wins in March 2023.