Mikaela Shiffrin Announces Return to Skiing After Injuring Abdomen in Scary Alpine Accident: 'I'm Back!'
"I’m strong enough to get back in the start gate," the athlete said Mikaela Shiffrin is set to return to the Alpine Ski World Cup on Thursday, Jan. 30, in Courchevel, France, for what will be her first professional race since sustaining a puncture wound to her abdomen in a fall back in November.