Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month and her team says she's already focusing on the 2026 Winter Games.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss next month’s World Alpine Skiing Championships and has now been sidelined due to injury for more than one year. Vlhova, a 29-year-old from Slovakia, fell in a race last Jan. 20, tearing at least one right knee ligament and then undergoing surgery.

Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova, a rival to American Mikaela Shiffrin, injured her knee one year ago, and will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month after a setback in her recovery.

On Nov. 30, Shiffrin crashed in a giant slalom run in Killington, Vermont, while bidding to become the first Alpine skier to reach 100 World Cup victories. She tumbled over and sustained a puncture wound seven centimeters deep into the right side of her abdomen, tearing into her external and internal oblique muscles.

Mikaela Shiffrin is back on snow and skiing regularly again at home in Colorado. When she’ll return to racing after an unusual puncture wound to her side remains “a moving target” that probably won’t be figured out for another week to 10 days according to U.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine ... her team said Monday. Vlhova has been Mikaela Shiffrin’s main rival in slalom for the past decade. However, Shiffrin's participation ...

Mikaela Shiffrin said on Thursday she will ... Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the World Championships in Austria next month, with the Slovak racer still recovering from a knee ...