SESTRIERE, Italy – U.S. downhill skier Lindsey Kildow, who suffered severe hip and pelvic contusions when she crashed during a training run on Monday, was released from a Turin hospital Tuesday and will decide at race time whether she will compete in the downhill today.
U.S. Alpine program director Jesse Hunt said Kildow was on the entry list the U.S. team submitted Tuesday.
“We want to leave the door open and, if she feels well enough, give her that opportunity,” Hunt said.
Hunt said U.S. officials hoped she would have has enough mobility and be is comfortable enough to compete in another 24 hours. Kildow, who has two World Cup downhill victories this season and is ranked No. 2 in the world in the downhill, is the only American woman who has won a World Cup race this season.
She had planned to ski all five women’s events in the Olympics. The downhill is the first.
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