{"id":426663,"date":"2024-12-01T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426663"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Shiffrin-to-miss-Killington-slalom-after-race-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Shiffrin-to-miss-Killington-slalom-after-race-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin to miss Killington slalom after race fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin said there was &#8220;not really too much cause for concern&#8221; after she crashed out of the World Cup giant slalom at Killington on Saturday, but the US superstar will miss Sunday&#8217;s slalom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi guys,&#8221; Shiffrin said in a video posted on X, formerly twitter, from the clinic where she was treated after being taken off the hill on a sled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not really too much cause for concern at this point,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just can&#8217;t move. I have a pretty good abrasion,&#8221; she added, indicating an area near the front of her left hip, where, she said &#8220;something stabbed me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so sorry to scare everybody, and it looks like all the scans so far are clear,&#8221; said Shiffrin, who was chasing a landmark 100th World Cup victory when she crashed out while leading in the second leg of Saturday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So thank you for all the support and concern, and congratulations to the winners and to my teammates for incredible performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In text accompanying the video she added: &#8220;Wishing the best of luck to my teammates tomorrow!! I&#8217;ll be cheering from the sidelines on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin, who led after the first leg, had a lead of 17-hundredths of a second over eventual race winner Sara Hector when she appeared to catch an edge heading into the steep final section of the course.<\/p>\n<p>She hit a gate and somersaulted into another before sliding into the catch-fencing, but gave a wave to fans as she was taken off the hill.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old already has 13 more World Cup wins than the most successful man, Ingemar Stenmark, and 17 more than the second woman, compatriot Lindsey Vonn.<\/p>\n<p>Needing three wins to hit 100 to start the season, she bagged her 98th and 99th career titles with back-to-back slalom wins in Levi, Finland, and Gurgl, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>That gave her a chance to complete her century in front of home fans in Killington, not far from where she attended Burke Mountain Academy as a youngster, but that pursuit has now been put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>bb\/js<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f20ca538eca95ee0e779788dfb99e591.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>American Mikaela Shiffrin is taken off the course after crashing out of the alpine World Cup giant slalom in Killington<\/p>\n<p>-Joseph Prezioso<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin said there was &#8220;not really too much cause for concern&#8221; after she crashed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}