Surgeons found that overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone also tore her ACL in a giant slalom crash in which she broke multiple bones in her left leg.

No other woman won more than four times.Brignone also won the giant slalom and placed second in the super-G at the World Championships in February.At full health, Brignone would be a contender for downhill,

Italy's Olympic medal hopeful Federica Brignone, fresh from claiming the overall World Cup skiing crown, suffered multiple leg fractures and ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament, crashing in the giant slalom at the Italian Championships on Thursday.