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Collateral damage to the knee and fractured elbow: today the operation for the 25-year-old specialist will be racing against time for his mid-December debut in Val d''Isère.
Tuesday 24 August 2021 2 minutes reading time
He hadn't experienced a great season, with only two points finishes in the World Cup between Zagreb (23rd) and the last race before the finals, with the 22nd place in Kranjska Gora, but at the World Championships in Cortina he had touched the masterpiece medal, finishing the world slalom in 6th place.
Istok Rodes had already started off at full speed in preparation, with intense days of training in Saas-Fee; last weekend, however, the inconvenience came that risks costing the first part of the Olympic year to the 25-year-old Croatian specialist. A fall during a giant session and diagnosis, with the immediate operation carried out this morning as the federation of his country has made official, which speaks of injury to the collateral ligament of the knee and fracture of the elbow.
For the 1996 class of Varazdin, recovery times between 2 and 3 months, which means returning to the track no earlier than November and an attempt to make his debut in the first slalom of the next World Cup, scheduled for 12 December in Val d '' Isère. For Rodes it will be a race against time, but he will then have another couple of months to find the best condition for the great goal of the Beijing Olympics.
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