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Austria’s Stephanie Venier claimed her first win of the season in the downhill World Cup race in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy on Friday, but her victory was overshadowed by a crash involving US superstar Mikaela Shiffrin. The record World Cup winner crashed into the safety nets after losing control while landing a jump. She received first aid at the scene of the accident before being helped off the course with her left boot raised off the snow. She had to be taken off the slope by helicopter. The US skiing federation said that Shiffrin’s left leg was being examined in a hospital in Cortina. Accord…

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