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In training in Ushuaia, the second serious injury (this time to the left knee) for the 25-year-old who was finding herself. Return to Europe and immediate operation in Innsbruck.
Sunday 21 August 2022 2 minutes reading time
A lot of anger, and it could not be otherwise, for a season that flies away even before starting, and a new long recovery with many unknowns, since already in the first case, finding the previous level was quite complicated.
Katharina Gallhuber has to stop, with the canons 7-8 months off (and therefore appointment to 2023/2024), for the rupture of the cruciate and the two menisci of the left knee, which has succumbed during a slalom training in Ushuaia, where the specialist of narrow poles had been training for a few days with her teammates.
The return from Argentina is immediate, as the Austrian federation announced this morning, and the operation is scheduled for the evening in Innsbruck.
A real shame, given that the ''97 native class of Lower Austria had finally found an important competitiveness in the last World Cup, with two sixths and an eighth place, she who after that surprise medal (just 20 years old) in the Olympic slalom of PyeongChang, the crusader of the right knee was broken in December 2018. This time the other joint cracked.
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