Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin announces return to skiing

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin will return to the Alpine Ski World Cup on Jan.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin will return to the Alpine Ski World Cup on Jan. 30, Shiffrin announced Thursday.

The decorated skier, whose 99 World Cup victories are the most of any individual in the sport, has been sidelined since Nov. 30 after sustaining a puncture wound to her right abdomen.

“It’s been a little bit uncertain whether I could even return this season, but I’ve been able to get on snow, I’ve been able train a little bit the past week or so, and I’m actually going to be heading over to Europe in the next couple of days,” she said on "TODAY" on Thursday.

Shiffrin, 29, was in search of her 100th World Cup win in Vermont when she crashed, tumbling through two gates before colliding with a fence, puncturing an oblique muscle in the process.

“I have a stab wound, basically,” Shiffrin told NBC Olympics in December as she recalled her injury.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/mikaela-shiffrin-skiing-return-olympics-rcna188874

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