Mikaela Shiffrin is fairly sore however relieved to not have been damage worse in a downhill race crash Friday, a U.S. coach mentioned.

Initial evaluation confirmed that Shiffrin didn’t endure ACL or PCL injury in her left knee when she crashed and slid into a security web in a World Cup in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

“She’s actually quite good,” U.S. girls’s Alpine snowboarding head coach Paul Kristofic mentioned, according to The Associated Press, which reported that Shiffrin won’t race in Saturday’s downhill or Sunday’s super-G. “She’s positive and in a certain way relieved. Because it could have been worse. But she’s pretty sore, as you are for most speed crashes. But she was quite upbeat about things.”

Seventeen seconds into her run, Shiffrin went over a small bounce, landed, tried to regulate to make a gate, fell to the bottom and slid into a security web at a major pace. She bounced off the online, and considered one of her skis indifferent.

Two minutes later, the published returned to point out a number of folks aiding Shiffrin. She bought up 5 minutes after the crash, utilizing her ski poles as crutches as she left the realm.

She was not proven to have put any weight on her left leg for a number of cautious strides.

Shiffrin checked in with teammates through WhatsApp as others waited for his or her runs, in response to U.S. Ski and Snowboard.

“It’s all ok ladies, surface is money, you got this!” she advised them.

Kristofic was undecided when Shiffrin would possibly return to competitors. The season runs into late March.

“We’re just going to go day by day at this point and treat what we’ve got and try to get her back up to speed,” he mentioned.

Shiffrin is as much as a document 95 Alpine snowboarding World Cup wins, together with a circuit-leading seven this season.

Three racers after Shiffrin, Olympic downhill gold medalist Corinne Suter of Switzerland stopped her run and set free screams shortly after touchdown the identical bounce that troubled Shiffrin.

The Swiss federation later introduced that Suter sustained a season-ending ACL tear.

Swiss Michelle Gisin, a two-time Olympic mixed champion, damage her proper tibia in a crash farther down the course and received’t race once more this weekend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.