AFP - American Lindsey Vonn will not have the chance to add to her two world gold medals in the downhill and Super-G after being ruled out of Thursday's giant slalom because of a cut thumb.
  
And the 24-year-old, currently leading the overall World Cup standings, warned that her participation in Saturday's closing slalom, a discipline in which she has recorded two World Cup wins this season, was also in doubt.
  
"I'm still quite sore," she told Austrian Ö3 public radio. "We'll see if I'll be able to start the slalom.
  
"I have to take into consideration my whole season. For me it's also the overall World Cup standings that is at stake."
  
Vonn underwent surgery in Austria on Tuesday after cutting into the tendon of her right thumb with the top of a champagne bottle in celebrating her downhill victory the day before.
  
She had a splint attached but was expected to have been able to grip a ski pole.
  
Speaking after Tuesday's surgery, the US Ski Team's medical director, Richard Quincy, had listed only as "possible" Vonn's chances of competing in Thursday's event.
  
Vonn received four stitches in her thumb after picking up a bottle of champagne opened with the edge of a ski and trying to spray it over guests attending a private party on Monday following her victory in the downhill at the World Ski Championships.
  
But she quit Val d'Isere to consult a specialist near Innsbruck, Austria, where initial examinations showed a lesion on her thumb tendon that necessitated surgery, performed by Christian Fink of Privatklinik Hochrum.
  
"She will have a splint and should be able to grip her ski pole. We anticipate she will be ready to compete in Saturday's slalom and possibly the giant slalom Thursday," Quincy had said Tuesday.