ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter crashed in training, the Swiss team said Thursday, and cannot ski until about a month before she is due to defend her title.

The 31-year-old Suter shapes as a strong contender at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February where women's Alpine skiing is raced at Cortina d'Ampezzo — the scenic storied hill where she also took downhill gold at the 2021 world championships .

The Swiss team said Suter tore a muscle in her left calf, bruised her left knee and fractured a bone in her right foot crashing in a downhill practice Wednesday at St. Moritz.

The Swiss resort stages the first women's downhill in the World Cup season on Dec. 12 which should be United States great Lindsey Vonn 's first race of the Olympic camp

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