‘Skiing can be brutal’: Shiffrin visits partner Kilde in hospital after huge crash
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6HVER)
- Norwegian dislocates shoulder in crash at Wengen
- 2020 World Cup champion undergoes surgery after accident
Downhill racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde dislocated his shoulder in a nasty crash and posted a photograph Sunday with his partner, Mikaela Shiffrin, at his bedside in a hospital in Bern where he had surgery.
Kilde was airlifted by helicopter from the finish area Saturday at Wengen after crashing into course-side safety fences off the final turn of the longest race on the World Cup circuit.
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