For Breezy Johnson a curse: this time he gives up his left knee, a new long stop

A bad luck, for the American sprinter among the most promising of the circuit and targeted by injuries in the last two years

Friday 21 June 2019 2 minutes reading time

Breezy Johnson is again forced to stop, just when he was recovering with training on the snows of Mammoth Mountain, in the middle of June, the best condition that could bring her back to the World Cup after a season thrown to the winds. "Devastated", this is how the talented downhill skier of Wyoming defines herself, once she received the news that the fall suffered last week, during a giant slalom training, cost her the rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament of the left knee, besides the medial collateral . The 23-year-old American, in fact, has returned from a vintage lost due to the accident that, during training in Chile last September, in that case involved the right knee with the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. And previously, in March 2017, Breezy had fractured the tibial plate, only to return to the big part in the Olympic vintage, taking a splendid 7th place in the PyeongChang five-wheel descent, in addition to the best result in the World Cup with 4th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He seemed to be on the verge of an explosion, considering the potential and what he had shown in fast races at such a green age, but now the unfortunate Johnson will have to start from scratch. Almost.

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