With no Mikaela Shiffrin, who was injured in a crash near the end of Saturday’s giant slalom, the race had an unusually unpredictable quality to it. The 25-year-old Rast jumped at the chance, taking home her first career World Cup win.

Switzerland's Camille Rast won the Killington slalom on Sunday, taking full advantage of the absence of injured Mikaela Shiffrin to capture her first alpine World Cup victory with an outstanding second run.

Swiss Camille Rast won the Stifel Killington Cup women's slalom on Sunday in the absence of the world's top two slalom skiers over the last several years, Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova. Rast prevailed by 57 hundredths over Swede Anna Swenn Larsson and Swiss Wendy Holdener combining times from two runs in Killington,

Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a deep puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen and “severe muscle trauma” during a scary crash in a giant slalom race but no serious bone, ligament or organ damage.

Mikaela Shiffrin suffered an abrasion near her hip and said there was “not really too much cause for concern” after crashing at an Alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom in Killington, Vermont, on Saturday.

The Vermont-schooled Olympian aimed to make Alpine skiing history at the international racing circuit’s Thanksgiving weekend stop in the Green Mountain State. The “boilerplate ice” course had other plans.