Mikaela Shiffrin posted a message on social media after falling while downhill in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and injuring her left leg.

Mikaella Shiffrin after the fall in Cortina d’Ampezzo: “Very grateful that it’s not worse”

The athlete with the most victories in the history of the World Cup in alpine skiing said that the injury is not serious, but noted that her leg hurts quite a lot.

“Thank you all for your support and well wishes. I’m taking it step by step for now and will share more information or updates as I learn more. Thank you very much, it’s not worse, but now the leg is very swollen.

I won’t be skiing for the rest of this weekend and I won’t be skiing in Kronplatz. It is difficult to say what will happen next. I need some time to discuss this with my team and see how things look in the coming days! Thank you all” – Mikaella Shiffrin on Instagram.

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Stephanie Venier won the Cortina d’Ampezzo downhill on Friday. The Austrian (30 years old) won her second World Cup victory after defeating Lara Gut-Behram (+0.39), Valerie Grenier, Sofia Goggia and Christina Ager (all +0.71).

Shiffrin fell about 20 seconds into the race and ended up in the nets. The athlete got up after a few minutes, but avoided leaning on her left leg.

Mikaela, who was #1 in the World Cup, was taken out by helicopter.

Petra Vlhova of Slovakia, who is in 2nd place overall, suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament in her right knee after fell on Yasny, a week ago.

The most victories in the history of the Alpine World Cup

1. Mikaela Shiffrin 95 (2012 – today)

2. Ingemar Stenmark 86 (1974 – 1989)

3. Lindsey Vonn 82 (2001 – 2019).