When Mikaela Shiffrin started skiing again weeks after her terrifying crash last year, the American star was even more alert to the potential dangers of training courses.

Shiffrin’s injuries — puncture wound to her abdomen and severe damage to her abdominal muscles — came in a World Cup giant slalom race but the two-time Olympic champion knew that training could be just as risky.

If not more.

“When I came back from injury I was aware of the fencing on the side and a hole in the course and where the trees were,” Shiffrin told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

“We are often training in conditions where the variables are just too many to control and you have to decide sometimes: Is this unreasonably dangerous or is this within a reasonable level of danger that we need to train,

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