Season over for Charlotte Lingg, Joana Haehlen tries to recover for Zauchensee

The latest from the infirmary of the World Cup protagonists: yesterday the news of the injury to the Liechtenstein slalomgigantista already winner in the European Cup, while Kristin Lysdahl has been operated in Oslo and will return next season.

Saturday 25 December 2021 2 minutes reading time

A very bitter Christmas, that of Charlotte Lingg. In the past few hours, the seriousness of the knee injury suffered by the 22-year-old specialist from Liechtenstein has emerged, who had done so much in this first part of the season, winning the first European Cup giant in Mayrhofen and two FIS slaloms in Pass Thurn . The 2021/22 vintage is already over for Lingg, who crashed during Wednesday's FIS super-g in Bischofwiesen, after finishing in 4th place the giant of the previous day. Joana Haehlen should instead return for the next quick races of the World Cup in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, January 15-16: the Swiss downhill skier had taken a major blow to her left knee, falling back from another in the descent of Val d '' Isère of last December 18th, finished in 21st place, but with a couple of weeks of pure physiotherapy there is confidence in his presence in Austria. As is known, the Olympic season is already over for Kristin Lysdahl, who broke her crusader in training: the Norwegian slalomgiantist was operated on in Oslo, working on the same knee also on a small meniscus injury, and the medical director of the Scandinavian national team , Dr. Marc Strauss, spoke of a recovery that will be complete and will bring Kristin to the track for the 2022/23 vintage.

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