Swiss superstar Lara Gut-Behrami will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season — including the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina — due to a torn ACL in her left knee, as first reported by the FIS Alpine Instagram account.

The super-G savant endured a nasty crash during a Copper Mountain training session on December 20 and flew home to Switzerland to undergo further assessment. Imaging confirmed the severity of the injury.

The Thanksgiving Day announcement comes on the morning of the inaugural super-G race of the season. It’s an event Gut-Behrami has ruled throughout her career, and within the last Olympiad, she established herself as the undisputed top super-G’er in the world.

LGB is a three-time Olympic medalist, 48-time World Cup winner (fifth all-time) and a world champion twice over. In 2008, she became the youngest athlete, man or women, to win a World Cup super-G event (a mark she still holds) at 17 years, 237 days, and tasted Olympic gold in the super-G at the 2022 Beijing Games. Most recently, she's been in the midst of defending her historic super-G Crystal Globe three-peat. 

In her lone race this season, the World Cup giant slalom opener in Soleden, the 34-year-old claimed third. It was her 101st career podium.

This isn’t the first time a major injury forced Gut-Behrami out of action. In September of 2009, she dislocated her hip, preventing her from competing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Four years later, she found redemption at the Sochi Winter Olympics, taking home a bronze medal. During the 2017 World Championships, she tore her ACL, the same one she injured again.

In June, Gut-Behrami announced that the 2025-26 season would be her last. If that remains the case, she’ll retire as one of the greatest Alpine skiers of all time who mastered both speed and technical disciplines. She’s the only woman in history to win at least 10 World Cup events in three different events. Not even Mikaela Shiffrin, the keeper of seemingly every record, can say that.

With a top contender like LGB out of action, the gates open a little wider for American speed racers like Lindsey Vonn and Breezy Johnson to carve through. Their seasons likely will begin at the World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland on December 12.