CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- American skier Bella Wright sustained just a minor injury after crashing in a World Cup downhill race on Saturday.
Wright had been airlifted off the course but later returned to the finish area with bandages on her chin.
"It hurt, but I knew right away my legs were OK," Wright said. "They're bruised, and they're definitely going to be more and more sore as time goes on. I was also spitting up blood, and I wasn't sure what that was from. And then they told me I have a laceration on my chin that I'll get some stitches on later, and we'll see how my head's doing."
Wright lost control midway through her run down the Olympia delle Tofane course and was immediately tended to by medical personnel.
Then she was loaded onto a stretcher and taken off the mountain by helicopter.
"Just a little chin laceration, no biggie," the U.S. Ski Team said on X with a photo of Wright giving a thumbs-up.
Kira Weidle and Joana Haehlen also fell Saturday, and Haehlen was carried away from the finish area with what was later determined to be a torn right ACL.
The race was eventually stopped with two skiers still to start after Ania Monica Caill of Romania went cartwheeling into the safety nets.
On Friday, American Mikaela Shiffrin and Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter were also airlifted off the mountain.
Racing on the course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in two years, Norwegian skier Ragnhild Mowinckel won Saturday by finishing 0.35 seconds ahead of American racer Jacqueline Wiles and 0.44 ahead of home favorite Sofia Goggia. It was Mowinckel's fourth career World Cup victory and her first in downhill. Her last win was in a super-G in Cortina a year ago.
Wiles earned her third career podium result and first since finishing third in the Cortina downhill six years ago. A week after that 2018 result, Wiles crashed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and missed nearly two full years with serious injuries to her left leg.
A super-G concludes the Cortina weekend Sunday.