He was destined to be a last week of celebration competition in the best season of his career.
The celebrations ended abruptly recently crowned. World Cup ski champion Federica Brignona When he broke multiple bones on his left leg during a Slalom giant clash in the Italian championship on Thursday, 10 months before an Olympic Games at home.
Brignone was ready to undergo surgery and will come out for “months,” said Andrea Panzeri, the medical chief of the Winter Sports Federation, Andrea Panzeri.
Brignone was the leader of the race in the Lusia ski area in Val Di Fassa, but in his second race he crashed through a door and lost control, which led her to fall and crash through the next door too. She was transferred by helicopter to a hospital in Trent.
The Italian star was diagnosed with multiple fractures on her tibial plateau and fibula, said the Federation. He was then transferred to a hospital in Milan, where Panzeri was going to operate with Brignone immediately.
“It is a serious fracture. But it is strong and fortunately healthy, since I had never had great wounds before,” said Panzeri. “It is difficult to make estimates now. I will tell you more later. Do not ask me about the Olympic Games or the recovery times yet. We need to see how we can reduce the fracture and then we can be more precise later (today) or tomorrow morning.”
Brignone, who won the Giant Slalom in the World Championship In February, he also won 10 World Cup races in three different disciplines (five giant slaloms, three super gs and two descent) this season. At 34, he became the older woman to win a World Cup race.
One of those World Cup victories arrived in a super g in the Olympia of the Tofane Course in Cortina That will receive female skiing at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games next February, his first victory in the race in the place.
“He is certainly not happy. He had an exceptional season and won everything he should have won. He could certainly have done it without this,” said Panzeri. “But the great champions always now how to recover.”
Brignone was expected to be one of the local stars of the Milan-Cortina Games. But the Italian faces a race just to recover in time.
“It will not be a quick recovery,” said Panzeri, who has also operated on Brignone’s teammate, Sofia Goggia, several times. “We are talking about months.”
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