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U.S. skiing champ Mikaela Shiffrin says post-injury PTSD will force her to skip defending giant slalom title

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Mikaela Shiffrin will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships.

The American suffered a deep puncture wound when she fell on Nov. 30 in Killington , Vermont , causing severe trauma to her oblique muscles.

"I'm currently working through some mental obstacles in order to return to the GS start with the intensity required for racing," she says on Instagram .

She will enter a new team combined event on Tuesday and will pair with downhill gold medalist Breezy Johnson .

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