Austrian Nicole Schmidhofer crashed badly during the ladies' downhill race in Val d'Isère last Friday.

The race was interrupted for 20 minutes while Schmidhofer was taken care of and could be transported down in a sledge and on to the hospital.

Later came reports from the Austrian media that it is now clear that the 31-year-old, who as recently as 2019 took home the downhill cup, will miss the rest of the season - and that it is unclear if his career is over.