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Eighty days to the first race of the World Cup season: will there be one of the most anticipated talents of the circuit?
Wednesday 7 August 2019 3 minutes reading time
On October 26th, Solden will host the classic giant opening on the Rettenbach and, among the protagonists of the women's race in the Oetztal, there could also be Melanie Meillard.
Crystalline class for the Swiss class 1998 that, already arrived to gamble at the highest level between giant and slalom (and also in parallel ...), had to interrupt a resounding ascent a few days after the Olympic debut, seriously injuring his left knee in one of the last training on Korean snow. A terrible diagnosis, the now classic one with cruciate and meniscus injuries, but above all an even more difficult rehabilitation, so much so that Melanie was unable to return during the past season, indeed she underwent a new intervention to "put things right ".
Now everything seems really ok for Loic's sister, who just in the year of stop of Melanie (who does not compete from January 30th 2018, Stockholm city event ended in 9th place), got her first podiums in the Cup of the World.
After a lot of physiotherapy, gym and bike, finally on Tuesday the slalomgigantista of Neuchatel is back on the track, skiing in free field on the snows of Zermatt. On the slopes of the Matterhorn, Meillard confessed to having "already experienced good sensations, the knee responds well." And although he will have to perform several training sessions until the autumn, Solden is now a little closer ...
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