Mikaela Shiffrin shows her support for Team USA skiers with a sweet message as they gear up for the upcoming World Cup amid her injury recovery

Mikaela Shiffrin is widely considered to be the greatest skiers of all time, having won 99 World Cup races. Recently, the American showed her support for her fellow Team USA racers as they gear up for the Semmering World Cup, while she deals with the aftermath of her crash in Killington.

After a crash put her out of contention for a big part of the 2023-2024 World Cup season, Shiffrin began her 2024-2025 season, poised to become the first skier to win a 100 World Cup races. She began the year with 97 victories, and claimed her 98th and 99th wins at the Levi and Gurgl races. Up next, the American had an opportunity to clinch her 100th win on home ground in Killington, but a massive crash saw her drop out of contention from the race.

Shiffrin has since been dealing with an abdominal puncture wound that was a result of the crash, and has yet to confirm a date for her return to the World Cup circuit. However, while she deals with her own injury, Mikaela Shiffrin is still cheering for her teammates. The official US Ski Team Instagram account recently shared a list of Team USA’s starters at the Semmering World Cup, with Shiffrin resharing the post to her Instagram stories and writing,

“Can’t wait to cheer for you ladies.”

Via Mikaela Shiffrin's Instagram

Mikaela Shiffrin on returning to racing after her horror crash

Shifrrin on her return to racing (Image Source: Getty)

Mikaela Shiffrin's accident in Killington marked the worst crash the American has faced in her career so far. Her crash resulted in a deep puncture wound to the right side of her abdomen, and the skier underwent surgery for the same earlier in December.

Speaking to Ski Racing Media after her surgery, Shiffrin shared that she had initially been sure of returning to the slopes before the end of the season, saying,

“I think if all things had gone perfectly and all the drainage just came out, we were pretty sure the season would be possible. It just depends on how I improve over the next weeks and months. There’s not a lot of precedent for this injury in our sport.”

“We can look at acute oblique tears in baseball, hockey and other sports, but ski racing is different. When you think about the force of a GS turn or a slalom turn or a super-G turn, it’s hard to know what the muscle will withstand. We’re giving it a couple of weeks to see. I think we’ll get a clearer view each day of how it’s going to work,” she went on to add.

Prior to her accident in Killington, Mikaela Shiffrin underwent a scary crash in Cortina d'Ampezzo in January 2024. However, she had only sustained a minor injury to her knee after that crash, and had returned to the World Cup circuit in March.