Nyman to Skip Kitzbuehel, Garmisch

After taking a knee to the face during his crash at the FIS Ski World Cup at Wengen, Switzerland, Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) has announced that he sustained a concussion and is not feeling sharp enough to step into the start gate in this weekend's speed series at the revered Hahnenkamm in front of 60,000+ fans, or next weekend in Garmisch, Germany, on the Kandahar, where he has suffered season-ending knee injuries each of the last two years. 

Though his limbs are okay - thankfully - after the Wengen fall, Nyman felt "foggy" on Tuesday and made the call not to start in the first of two downhill training runs. Nyman then posted the video from his gnarly Lauberhorn crash and announced his decision on Instagram Wednesday evening:

The good news is my limbs are okay and I think it is because of the knee to the face. It redirected my fall to a much safer one. The bad news is the knee to the face has left me with a concussion and I’m not feeling sharp enough to tackle the beasts ahead. I’ve chosen to not race the Hahnenkamm and the Kandahar and I have shifted my focus toward the Are World Championships. I’m going to go thru our concussion protocol and get back up to speed ASAP. Good luck to my compatriots these next two weekends.

Nyman will undergo protocol and treatment over the next 10 days to get back to race speed. He will have two weeks to get back to 100 percent before traveling to Are, Sweden, for the World Championships where the first downhill training run will take place on February 5, 2019.