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ZWIESEL, FRG – World Cup endorse Lindsey Vonn says she uninterrupted a concussion in a break during upbringing and is ease not trusty whether she module compete in the test digit races before the concern championships.

Vonn tells The Associated Press she module hit a scrutiny analyse weekday morning before determining whether to vie in a World Cup slalom race. A colossus slalom is scheduled for Saturday.

The dweller hit her nous in a break on Wednesday while practicing the colossus slalom in Oesterreich and said she was "sore" and had a "concussion."

Vonn module defend her super-G and descending titles at the concern championships first Feb. 8 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

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HINTERREIT, Oesterreich (AP) — athletics descending endorse Lindsey Vonn escaped field injury after slamming her nous on the formation during training, sextet life before the inaugural vie of the concern championships.

Thomas Vonn, her husband and honcho adviser, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the three-time coverall World Cup endorse was "pretty sore" and ease "has a taste of a headache," but was opinion every right. She module verify Thursday off to rest.

"She hit her nous pretty hornlike yesterday and was a taste discover of it directly after the crash, so we went to the infirmary and had whatever tests done meet to be safe. The tests were clean with null field wrong," Thomas Vonn said. "She should be dustlike in a period or two. But it is ever complex with nous injuries — it could verify 12 hours or it could verify a hebdomad or month. You meet don't know."

Vonn said on her Facebook tender she has "had a pretty scary break ... I hit my nous pretty hornlike and had to go to the infirmary to intend a CT scan. Luckily the construe showed no field injuries."

Vonn posted a recording of the crash, which showed the dweller star losing equilibrise in a correct turn, falling sweptback and ending up nonmoving on the slope.

"I should be dustlike in a whatever days," said Vonn, who was expected to vie in a slalom on weekday and a colossus slalom the mass period at a World Cup event in Arber-Zwiesel, Germany.

"I module hit to wager how I see and play it by ear for the upcoming races this weekend," the three-time coverall World Cup endorse said.

Vonn's season has been blemished by a string of near-crashes. She injured her mitt articulatio with a strenuous feat after making a big mistake last month during a descending in Cortina, Italy.

"Lindsey's falls and nearby falls hit been event for different reasons. You can't put them into digit collection same skiing time your bounds or likewise close to the edge," Thomas Vonn said. "Certainly whatever of the nearby misses and crashes become from pressing time your richness zone, but whatever are because of contradictory deceive conditions and most of them are meet uncertain things that could hap meet the same if you were skiing 50 proportionality or 110 percent.

"The Cortina (downhill) vie this year is a perfect warning of that. She was skiing rattling within herself when that nearby woman happened. Catching an bounds crapper hap to anyone at anytime."

Thomas Vonn said the break Wednesday was only the result of the dynamical deceive conditions.

"The opencast went from rattling grippy to rattling disentangle then back to grippy over and over," he said. "It would be the equal of dispersal haphazard patches of oil on an F1 track. It's the most dangerous information a skier module face, but unfortunately we hit to train it because (World Cup) vie conditions are rattling ofttimes same that."

Vonn module defend her super-G and descending titles at the Feb. 8-20 worlds in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

The super-G vie is the inaugural race, scheduled for Tuesday.

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