Austrian Nicole Schmidhofer crashed badly during the ladies' downhill race in Val d'Isère.
The competition was interrupted for 20 minutes while Schmidhofer was taken care of.
Later on Friday, reports came from the Austrian media that it is now clear that the 31-year-old, who as recently as 2017 took World Cup gold in Super-G, will miss the rest of the season.
Kronen Zeitung writes that the Austrian Ski Federation reports that the preliminary investigation revealed suspicions that a front cruciate ligament and a ligament in the left knee are damaged.