The Swiss skier Lara Gut announced Thursday that she had not recovered from a hip injury and would miss the Vancouver Olympics.

Gut broke the news on her Web site, confirming what many in the sport had suspected because of the severity of her injury. She sustained a dislocated right hip when she crashed during a training run in October. She had surgery and had hoped to be back on the slopes this week and compete in a World Cup before the Olympics. Now, she said, she is unable to start skiing for at least another month.

Lara Gut

Gut, 18, won two silver medals in the world championships last February and in December 2008 became the youngest skier to win a World Cup event, a super-G in St. Moritz. She is one of skiing’s bright up-and-coming stars, both photogenic and marketable, and was expected to challenge the American Lindsey Vonn in the downhill and super-G in Vancouver.