According to the Expressen newspaper, the 29-year-old crashed
while training in Bolzano ahead of Tuesday's FIS World Cup
competition in Innichen in northern Italy.
"It has been established she has some small bleeding on the
brain and she was operated on," Swedish ski cross sporting
director Joar Baatelson was quoted as saying.
Holmlund, who is second in the World Cup rankings, finished
third at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
(This version of the story corrects to ski cross from
cross-country skiing)
(Reporting by Philip O'Connor; Editing by Tony Jimenez)
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