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The Slovakian's staff decided to stop Petra, thinking about the World Cup final. Coach Mauro Pini: "An inflammation that has been dragging on for some time, we still have goals to achieve".
Sunday 13 February 2022 3 minutes reading time
Petra Vlhova has achieved her goal, that is the first medal of her career (and of Slovakia in alpine skiing at the Games) at the Olympic level, among other things gold with the extraordinary comeback in the 2nd run of the slalom last Wednesday , but everyone expected that the holder of the crystal ball would play it again also in combined, where she would play among the big favorites.
It would be, in fact, because today the communication arrived that the second Olympics in Vlhova is over: the problem is of a physical nature, that is an inflammation of the tendon of the left ankle that has recommended a stop to then play the chances of bis in the World Cup, given that Petra is second in the overall just 17 points behind Mikaela Shiffrin and it is easy to imagine that, despite skipping the two descents at the end of February in Crans-Montana, we will see her again for super-g and giant of 5- March 6 in Lenzerheide.
Yesterday the Slovakian had skipped the first downhill training, preparatory to the combined which, on February 17th, will see Shiffrin, Gisin, Holdener and Brignone as main points of reference at this point.
As vice world champion in charge of the discipline, twice, at Are 2019 and Cortina 2021, a choice that is certainly not easy: "This inflammation had affected training in recent weeks - explained coach Mauro Pini - We still have goals important in front of us, now Petra will return home for a few days to share the Olympic emotions with her loved ones and acquire the necessary energy for the World Cup final ”.
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