Season over for Gina Stechert

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Season over for Gina Stechert

The fall in the downhill in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Saturday has cost dear to Gina Stechert.

The German broke the patellar tendon in his left knee and has already been made to the orthopedic clinic of Monaco of Bavaria. The process of reconstruction of the tendon went well, the 26 year old Oberstdorf, sacred place of the ski jump, will remain in the hospital a few days before starting rehabilitation, recovery times are fixed in six months regarding the back on skis, of course, if all goes well. "It 's very bad hurt myself before the Olympic Games - Gina says that in his career he won the World Cup downhill in Tarvisio on 21 February 2009 and which was recently returned from one of his many serious injuries -. In the last days I felt good and I wanted to do a lot of races. I know what I have to do in the months ahead, the goal now is to get back in good shape for the next season. " The preparation of Neveitalia is virtually an athlete who wishes to so far in his career has had a lot more pain than joy.
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