SÖLDEN, Austria (AP) — Still recovering from a horrifying downhill crash in January 2024, Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde knows his body will never be the same again.

He hopes, though, it will heal well enough for him to win races again.

“The leg will never be 100 percent, no,” Kilde said on the eve of Sunday's season opener of the men’s World Cup season.

“It is like crashing a car and taking it to the people who can fix it, it will never be the same car again,” he said. “But you can still make the car super fast.”

Kilde, the 2020 overall champion and winner of 21 World Cup races, is still some ways away from lining up at the start gate of a race and he adds to a long list of injured absentees for the traditional first giant slalom of the season on the Rettenbach glacier in

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