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In the past few hours, the Swede has ended up under the knife and the doctors have ruled out the possibility of making it within the world slalom scheduled in two months. "Difficult to accept, but I'll be back stronger next year".
Wednesday 23 December 2020 3 minutes reading time
There was hope to avoid surgery and, with a six-week stop, save at least the world championships.
The bad news, however, continues for Anna Swenn-Larsson, first forced to miss Levi's races, then struck by the positivity at Covid and finally by the serious injury she suffered during the training of the Swedish team in Vipiteno. The Scandinavian federation has made it official that, in the past few hours, the operation was necessary for the fracture remedied in the right ankle and the doctors said "no" to a possible return by the end of this season, even though the application of a plaster (but only a removable plastic protection).
"The injury is such that if Anna started too early and had a new fracture, it would mean a risk to continue her career," said the national team doctor Jakob Swanberg. "It is not really my season and at this moment I just have to accept the situation - said Swenn-Larsson, who in this year would have been hunting for the much desired first victory in CdM, in addition to defending the world silver obtained in 2019 to Are - I can only look ahead, but there is a part of me that perhaps has not yet understood that I will not even be able to participate in the World Cup. But Dr. Swanberg has been clear, there will be no time to return this season.
I think it will take another day before I can fully accept it, but next year I'll be back better than ever ”.
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