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Finishing in Val d' 'Isere in fifteenth place in the Super G, Ryan Cochran-Siegle got the best finish of his career.
Wednesday 7 December 2016 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-four of Vermont is predestined: the best talent of the second generation of racing Skiing Cochrans, the legendary family of US skiers. The first wave has seen among the sixties and seventies, the four brothers running around the White Circus tracks going up all at least once on the podium. The eldest daughter Marilyn won the Bronze medal in Combined at the World Championships of 1970 and the Giant Cup in 1969, together with 15 podiums and 3 victories in the World Cup, where the 'single brood male, Bob, won in 1973 the Giant Heavenly Valley. If the younger Lindy had to settle for second place in the Slalom of Les Gets in 1974, the most titled of the family was definitely Barbara Ann: Olympic gold in slalom in Sapporo in 1972, three wins and 18 podium finishes in the World Cup.
While Jimmy, the son of Bob, came into national accounting without ringing the United States in the Olympics and World Championships from 2005 to 2010, the real new generation of talent is Ryan, the son of Barbara Ann. Cochran-Stiegler 19 years already won the first national championship in December of the same year conquered the first points in the World Cup in the Super G on the Birds of Prey; in March of 2012, in Roccaraso, he conquered two Ori in the World Junior Championships in Downhill and Combined putting behind among others Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Mathieu Faivre and Henrik Kristoffersen.
The first sliding door for Ryan arrives at the World Championships 2013 in Schladming, where the third round of the Combined Downhill destroyed the left knee. A couple of traditional surgical procedures did not allow him to return to the highest levels in 2014 even if you require in the Nor-Am Cup, until in August undergoing a knee transplant at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, which basketball fans know for the 'intervention to Danilo Gallinari. As evidenced on SkiRacing.com the pages of Chris Antinori medical staff coordinator, "There were no previous sports have gone through this surgery and returned to the top level. Ryan Cochran-Siegler is the only skier 'elite to be returned to high levels ".
And the recovery has been very slow: eight weeks without loading the knee then mild exercises to strengthen muscle tone. Six months later, it was in February 2015, the first squat. Last summer, the first contact with the snow and a season coasting between Noram, FIS, and the return to the World Cup in Kranjska Gora but only in Gigante. "Having experienced success before," says Cochran-Siegle, "I did not want to Schladming was my last race, I was not ready for this. I put all my energy into the rehabilitation, I wanted to do it well because it was the 'single way to get to what I want to achieve. "
In the Super G in Lake Louise he started with the number 61 and has achieved the best result in the World Cup of his career, the fifteenth place. "When I crossed the line I felt a great relief," says Ryan, "I did not know he had gone so well. When I saw the fifteenth time I was surprised, a little '' super excited and happy, all at 'suddenly super happy".
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