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After surgery again on fibula last February, the 24-year-old from Castelrotto (out of the national team for next season) is still suffering, but she doesn't want to give up. He talked about it to SportNews.
Thursday 24 June 2021 3 minutes reading time
A real ordeal, which began in December 2016 with that ugly fall in Lake Louise which cost the rupture of the cruciate ligament of the left knee.
Since that moment, for Verena Gasslitter it has been a continuous chase towards a place in the sun and, even if the talented sprinter born in 1996 has found the World Cup and the first points, from the downhill one in Bansko in January 2020 in 28th place ( which remains her best result in the maximum circuit) of last December in the super-g of Val d''Isère, one of the potential downhillers of the future blue has never found her true level.
In February, the girl from Castelrotto was forced to go under the knife again, following the fall in the European Cup downhill in mid-January in Crans-Montana where she ended her season. In Innsbruck, the South Tyrolean was operated on the fibula, but the problems did not end as she explained herself in the columns of sportnews.bz. "The surgery was now necessary and the recovery was good, but when I went back to skiing for the first time, it was even worse than before," explained amara Gasslitter, who suspects pain always linked to the worst of her. injuries, when in September 2017 he broke his tibia and fibula in his leg during a training session in Argentina.
Outside the squads of the national team ("but it was not a surprise, considering the results"), after returning with the team of multipurpose teams and having received trust and consideration from the blue technical staff, Verena is called to restart working with the group sports carabinieri. He will try again, but the road is far from downhill.
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