BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — The plan was for American ski racer Lauren Macuga to be in Switzerland this week getting ready for some speed races.

Instead, she was hobbling around on crutches Thursday in the finish area at Beaver Creek as she awaits surgery to fix her torn right ACL.

The ever-positive Macuga found a bright side, though. She got to watch her younger brother, Daniel, test out the demanding downhill course before the World Cup racers took the stage.

“It was so fun to watch him,” Macuga, wearing her trademark bucket hat, said with a smile.

Macuga was being billed as one of the athletes to watch at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February. Her plans flipped in an instant. She was training in giant slalom at Copper Mountain, Colorado, last Friday when her ski, as she e

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