Overview
- The Austrian Ski Federation and FIS said Liensberger sustained a right knee tibial plateau fracture, torn meniscus and MCL injury, with surgery scheduled on Friday.
- Officials confirmed the injuries end her World Cup season and rule her out of the Winter Games in Italy next month.
- The crash occurred during giant slalom training in St. Michael ahead of this weekend’s World Cup races in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
- Liensberger’s absence removes one of Mikaela Shiffrin’s principal slalom rivals at Milan-Cortina.
- Her fall adds to a run of pre-Olympic training injuries involving Swiss champions Michelle Gisin, Lara Gut-Behrami and Corinne Suter.