The courage of Hannes Reichelt: "I still want to try, the goal is the Cortina World Championship 2021"

The Salzburg champion met the media in Innsbruck after the operation on his right knee that will keep him still for a long time. Here's what he said ...

Tuesday 31 December 2019 3 minutes reading time

It does not give up, on the contrary. He wants to scollinare 40 years on the track and get to the world championships in Cortina 2021. This is the goal of Hannes Reichelt, as the same Salzburg champion confessed in the morning, during the press conference organized in Innsbruck, in a couple of days after the operation on his right knee destroyed in the fall of Bormio last Saturday. "I'm quite well, considering the circumstances - Reichelt explained - I have to wait to be able to start rehabilitation again, I want to take the necessary time, but what is certain I want to return and the goal remains the world championships in Cortina 2021. It is where I want to go. " Lion-like courage, like the one shown almost 6 years ago in Kitzbuehel, when he tamed the Streif with a broken back, driving an entire people mad; the joint has suffered enormous damage, if we think that in addition to the anterior cruciate of the knee, the external ligaments and the internal and external meniscus have jumped. "We removed 30-40% of the meniscus during the operation - explained the doctor who operated it, dr. Karl Golser - As I had already said, however, recovery is possible and Hannes' iron will can make a difference. " The super-g world champion in Beaver Creek 2015 spoke of his terrible year, after his involvement in the Aderlass operation (the doping investigation that broke out at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld, ed), from which he is he was then completely cleared: "Yes, 2019 was disgusting, except for the birth of my son, the most beautiful moment in life - the words of the Salzburger - Now let's look ahead and repeat it. I'll come back. "

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