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The double accident in the first giant of Adelboden costs the two class 2000 dearly. For Mauro Caviezel, after yesterday's blow in training, it will be necessary to wait a few more days for a definitive diagnosis.
Friday 8 January 2021 4 minutes reading time
Divided by just two days on the identity card, united by the desire to amaze and soon reach the top of the world, but unfortunately today also by bad luck.
Unfortunately, bad news arrives regarding Lucas Braathen and Atle Lie McGrath, the Norwegian phenomena who fell today in the first giant of Adelboden. "Pinheiro", who had started the season with the incredible success of Soelden, literally flew to the finish line, finishing the race in seventh position, after being shot in the air from that final bump that created problems to many athletes. As feared, the diagnosis is the classic one: the cruciate of the right knee is missing, as the Scandinavian national team doctor Marc Strauss confirmed to NRK. "We will do a final evaluation once we get home, but it will require surgery and the classic 6-9 months of stop".
Season ended as McGrath's is likely to have ended today on Chuenisbargli, splendid second in Alta Badia and today out in the first heat, due to a violent impact with a door on the right curve and then ended up in the networks. In this case, for the dominator of the last European Cup it is "only" a strain in the cruciate, but the stop will be at least six weeks (not requiring surgery) and, as Dr. Strauss confirmed, provided that the diagnosis complete to be carried out in Norway does not reveal any other problems.
Goodbye World Cup, which instead hopes to still be able to play Mauro Caviezel: crashed yesterday in training in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Swiss sprinter leader of the super-g cup accused a very important head injury, but already this morning, once he returned home, his condition had improved although he worries about possible damage to his bruised left knee. However, it will be necessary to wait a few more hours to understand the extent of the stop of the Grisons, as well as for the situation linked to Zan Kranjec, forced to forfeit the second giant from Adelboden due to the back pain that hit the Slovenian specialist , among other triumph in the Swiss temple 12 months ago.
Really two cursed days for the snow champions.
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