Shiffrin confirms shell miss Beaver Creek World Cup races [Video]

US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin said Wednesday that she’s “starting to feel a little bit more human” after suffering a puncture wound in a giant slalom crash but confirmed she won’t race at Beaver Creek, Colorado, this month.

“This is another fairly ambiguous injury and really hard to put a timeline of when I’ll be either back on snow or back to racing,” Shiffrin said in a video posted on social media. “But I do know that I will not be starting in Beaver Creek.”

Shiffrin had already said after Saturday’s crash she didn’t expect to be ready for the Colorado races, a downhill on December 14 and a super-G on December 15.

On Wednesday, she said that whatever object caused the puncture in her abdomen also left “tore a cavern” in her oblique muscles. She said she had also undergone further testing to check for possible damage to her …