LOS ANGELES: US slalom queen Mikaela Shiffrin will make her World Cup return from a knee injury suffered in December in a slalom at Crans Montana on Monday.
Shiffrin, who returned to training on snow on January 31, said in a post on her Facebook page that the race -- added to the schedule in place of a cancelled slalom from Maribor -- will allow her to get back to competition a bit sooner than she originally planned.
"I said that I hope to race at the end of February or early March, but you may have heard that the canceled slalom from Maribor has been rescheduled for Crans Montana on February 15- And I'm going to be there!" she posted.
"Se ya in a week!"
Shiffrin, the 2014 Olympic gold medalist and a two-time world slalom champion who won the last three World Cup titles in the discipline, suffered a bone bruise, hairline fracture and partially torn ligament in her right knee in a warmup run for a race in Are, Sweden, on December 12.
As she returned to skis just over a week ago, the 20-year-old told the Denver Post she had no pain and no swelling in the knee.
Sweden's Frida Hansdotter currently tops the World Cup slalom standings with 505 points.
Shiffrin, who won two slaloms in Colorado before she was injured, is 305 points adrift.
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