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Initial investigations for Omar Visintin after crashing today in the semifinals of the Olympic test.
Tuesday 18 February 2014 1 minutes reading time
A great flight, so much fear and luckily nothing was broken. Are encouraging outcomes of the first medical examination for Omar Visintin, the protagonist of today a bad fall while he was fighting for access to the big final of the men's snowboard cross race.
According to the website of the physis, the rider atesino would bring a "little suspected infringement of'' lower rear corner of the acetabulum'''' s right hip." On his return to Italy, Visintin will be subjected to further investigation by Italian medical staff. Thus ends the ill-fated expedition Olympic boardercross blue, who returns home without medals and two injured athletes after Michela Moioli was hurt during Sunday's race.
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