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The 25-year-old Swiss sprinter was injured in Bormio: surgery in Zurich in the late afternoon of December 31st, a recovery is attempted within a few weeks.
Friday 1 January 2021 2 minutes reading time
Stelvio bitter also for Niels Hintermann. In addition to the injuries remedied at home in France, the red-cross downhill skier also has to stop after his crash in Wednesday's race.
The '95 class winner of the Wengen combined in 2017, but above all he seemed to be in decisive growth already at this start of the season, recalling the sensational exit in Val d''Isère when he was traveling with the best time (the best placement is the 19th in Val Gardena, in the only completed descent), has already been operated on in the last hours of 2020 at the Balgrist University Clinic in Zurich.
The surgery was necessary for the damage to the cartilage of the right knee, which will require at least a few weeks of recovery. "I will start rehabilitation in the next few days", Hintermann said via Swiss-Ski. The goal is to make it at least for the last pre-world races in Garmisch (the first weekend of February), in order to play a call-up for Cortina, but it will really be a race against time.
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