Maddie Mastro Sidelined 6-8 Weeks

“Well that wasn’t funny,” the caption reads. “Out of office for 6 to 8 weeks.”

The photos that follow feature the rider from California in a sling.

For those keeping track at home, that timeframe will put Mastro on the couch until the end of July or beginning of August. All of this comes at a time when Mastro will be working toward qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy. She did not specify how the injury happened, and it’s not clear whether or not it is a snowboarding-related injury.

Mastro is coming off of a red-hot FIS contest season. She won gold at China’s Secret Garden, and came back from an injury to get silver at the Laax Open. She just barely missed the podium in Aspen, then took second place at the Calgary Snow Rodeo. She won an FIS Crystal Globe, finished in second place in The Snow League’s debut competition in Aspen, and accomplished three never-been-done tricks, including the double crippler. The move has become her signature in the halfpipe.

She also has had to constantly battle. At the Laax Open, Mastro injured her ankle, and had to fight through the holiday break in order to heal it in time. Work with a sports psychologist was among the things she attributed to her recovery. A fall in the halfpipe can shake a rider mentally as much as physically.

“Fear very much does exist,” she said in an interview in January. “It's learning how to manage it and use it. What we do is scary, and you do get those bad outcomes at times where something really scary happens and you do fall.”