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The first diagnosis on the injury of the transalpine arrives, who now risks the Olympics. The teammate is not there: "I am irritated, but above all anxious for Victor". And Meillard adds: "We have crossed the line".
Thursday 6 January 2022 4 minutes reading time
The safety of the athletes in first place, this is always stated by the FIS, from the very long presidency by Gian Franco Kasper to the one that has just begun by Johan Eliasch.
If Markus Waldner, as demonstrated last Thursday on the occasion of the cancellation of the second super-g in Bormio, has always been particularly attentive to this aspect in speed races, it must be said that what happened today in the slalom in Zagreb, with the Deputy Emmanuel Couder at the helm, just not good. And we are not just talking about image for skiing, with the Croatian competitions which in this sense were a sensational own goal, but precisely for the health of the great protagonists of the white circus.
Leaving aside the management of various times and displacements with the Adelboden races looming, and it is clear that athletes like Pinturault, Feller, Zubcic and Kristoffersen, just to mention four big "first group" in slalom and giant, are disadvantaged compared to rivals like Odermatt and De Aliprandini in a challenge on Saturday on the Chuenisbargli, today the damage has been done and concerns Victor Muffat-Jeandet.
The exit at the start of the heat, faced with bib n ° 12 in the middle of the holes of a "Crveni Spust" already in shameful conditions, cost dearly to the transalpine slalomgigantista: the first diagnosis for the 32-year-old from Val d''Isère, as reported by “Le Dauphiné Liberé”, he speaks of a fractured right ankle, pending further examinations between tonight and tomorrow in France.
Participation in the Olympic Games (where the very nice Victor defends the bronze won in combined at PyeongChang 2018) is at risk, even if recovery times and possible intervention are all to be defined, with the weekend in Adelboden obviously already excluded for VMJ. Furious Alexis Pinturault, who has not sent them to tell (and it is not the first time that the holder of the crystal ball has lashed out at those who manage the circuit) to the International Federation. “Today it was really too expensive FIS. I am irritated and anxious about my friend Victor Muffat-Jeandet. I keep my fingers crossed for him ”.
And among the many, Loic Meillard added (in addition to offering proximity to Muffat-Jeandet): "Today we have exceeded the limit of what is acceptable".
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