The Olympic season begins in the worst way for Kristoffersen: fracture to the talus of the left foot

The Norwegian champion crashed during a training with the dirt bike: stop from 4 to 6 weeks. Dad Lars: "We plan to return to the snow in mid-August".

Friday 7 May 2021 3 minutes reading time

Henrik Kristoffersen has returned from a season that is anything but good, indeed certainly the worst since he emerged at the top of the white circus with his first victory in Schladming, in January 2014. Only two victories in the World Cup, far from the podium in the general and never fighting for the specialty cups, the 26-year-old Norwegian slalom giant saved part of the balance with the world bronze in Cortina, in "his" race, but he certainly expects much more from the year that will lead to the Olympic Games in Beijing, where he will try to win that gold in slalom that was blatantly faded in the 2nd heat in PyeongChang. The preparation for the 2021/22 season, however, started very badly for HK94: the news that the 2019 giant world champion crashed with the bike emerged in the last few hours, confirmed by dad Lars Kristoffersen to his colleagues at "VG" from cross, his great passion which, at the same time, he uses as a very useful training tool especially in the spring-summer period. Well Henrik, in recent weeks at his Austrian base in Salzburg, landed badly from a jump and broke his left foot talus. Stop from 4 to 6 weeks, much longer than the one he was forced to even a year ago, when he sprained his ankle doing athletic exercises. "It is a piece of bone that broke, the pressure exerted by landing short from a jump was decisive in the negative - explains Lars Kristoffersen - In the worst, we can say that it is better to stop now rather than in a few months, since we can work on the snow as we had foreseen, with the skidomes in Germany (in particular the one in Winterberg) closed due to a pandemic. We plan to return to skiing in mid-August on the glacier; Henrik has been visited in Austria and has now returned home to Norway for further exams ”, concluded the father of the champion norge.

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