Lindsey Vonn, a three-time World Cup champion, sustained a concussion when she crashed during practice and was unsure Thursday whether she would compete in the final two races before the world championships.
The announcement came the week after Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, the World Cup circuit's reigning champion, sustained serious injuries in a downhill at the Beaver Creek resort near Vail, Colo., where he remains hospitalized.
Maier, the reigning World Cup and double Olympic champion, sustained a broken right leg and several lesser injuries when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car near the central Austrian town of Radstadt, reports said.
The three-time NASCAR champion sustained a "burst fracture of the L1 vertebra" when he crashed on an ATV Sunday and he had surgery Wednesday, the team said.
A champion sustained a serious injury a week before a major fight, devastating Bellator and its fans that were eager to watch what was expected to be an epic battle.
A not dissimilar philosophy appears to sustain the champions of HS2, as they ignore relentless, well-informed criticism from, among others, the National Audit Office, the public accounts committee, the Institute for Economic Affairs and, in May, a group of academic transport specialists.
Our government should not pick companies to favor; I do not think we have the history or inclination to do what some countries can do successfully, which is to pick and sustain national champions.
Moving gingerly on a sprained right ankle, Monica Seles, a nine-time Grand Slam singles champion, today sustained the worst defeat of her 12-year professional career.
Walker's film looks at the life of Kevin Pearce, an American snowboard champion who sustained a traumatic brain injury on New Year's Eve in 2009 while training in Park City, Utah.
The impact of orthopaedic injuries to the health and revenue of the individual racehorse can be dramatic as was recently illustrated by the catastrophic and life-threatening injury that the 2006 Kentucky Derby champion "Barbaro" sustained during the 2006 Preakness Stakes.
