Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month after a setback in her recovery from a knee injury and is already focusing on the 2026 Winter Games, her team said Monday.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss next month’s World Alpine Skiing Championships and has now been sidelined due to injury for more than one year. Vlhova, a 29-year-old from Slovakia, fell in a race last Jan. 20, tearing at least one right knee ligament and then undergoing surgery.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the World Championships in Austria next month, with the Slovak racer still recovering from a knee injury she suffered a year ago.

With injured slalom stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova missing, Liensberger had a free-flowing run under the floodlights to build a big lead of 0.75 seconds over Wendy Holdener of Switzerland. Olympic giant slalom champion Sara Hector of Sweden ...

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month and her team says she's already focusing on the 2026 Winter Games. Vlhova has been Mikaela Shiffrin ...

Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova, a rival to American Mikaela Shiffrin, injured her knee one year ago, and will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month after a setback in her recovery.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine ... her team said Monday. Vlhova has been Mikaela Shiffrin’s main rival in slalom for the past decade. However, Shiffrin's participation ...

The Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will not be competing at the World Championships in Austria next month. The athlete is currently recuperating from a