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The Styrian sprinter, who broke her crusader and collateral left knee in Friday's crash, will only be back on skis next summer.
Saturday 19 December 2020 2 minutes reading time
The classic 6-8 months of stop, even if only after the operation will the exact recovery times be established.
Nicole Schmidhofer's post-injury path will begin only in the next few hours: the surgery on the left knee, necessary to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament and the collateral destroyed in the devastating impact of compression, in the number 1 descent of Val d''Isère , has been postponed as the joint is still quite swollen.
The 31-year-old super-g world champion in Sankt Moritz 2017 will be operated on at the Hochrum clinic in Innsbruck, where the first diagnosis was confirmed by "formalizing" the conclusion of her season, with the aim of returning to skis in the ' summer 2021. The goal can only become to prepare for the year of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022, with the Styrian downhill skier who is now facing the second long journey with rehabilitation, given that already in January 2016 the cruciate of the right knee during the trials of the Cortina descent.
And just over a year later he achieved the best triumph of his career.
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