PARIS — American double Olympic alpine ski gold medalist
Mikaela Shiffrin has tested positive for
COVID-19, she announced on social
media on Monday.
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The 26-year-old three-time overall World Cup champion will
miss the meeting at Lienz on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Her positive test comes just over a month from the Winter
Olympics in
Beijing, where she will hope to add to the slalom gold she won in
2014 and the giant slalom title in 2018.
"Unfortunately I had a positive COVID test. I'm
following protocol and isolating, & I will miss Lienz," she tweeted.
Shiffrin did not say when she tested positive, or if she had
already arrived in Austria where she was due to compete in a giant slalom and
then a slalom.
Shiffrin — who leads this season's World Cup standings — is
the latest female ski star to be forced to isolate after testing positive.
Switzerland's 2016 overall World Cup champion Lara
Gut-Behrami missed the Val d'Isere and Courchevel meetings.
Austria's double ski world champion
Katharina Liensberger also
missed the Courchevel round of the World Cup season.
Liensberger is not a certain starter either in Lienz where
there will be no spectators due to COVID-19.
"We are conscious of our responsibility," said
Roswitha Stadlober, president of the Austrian Ski Federation.
The women's World Cup season moves on to Zagreb on January 4
— for a slalom — and then Maribor in Slovenia (January 8/9).
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