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At "Ski Racing", the American sprinter explained what happened in recent months, with the right knee completely to be rebuilt. Muffat-Jeandet, meanwhile, has already been on skis for a few weeks and feels ready for a complete preparation.
Saturday 28 May 2022 6 minutes reading time
She had been Sofia Goggia's main rival, even if she had never really managed to get so close to her first World Cup victory, in the first races of a 2021/22 season that already looked a lot like the previous one, with many podiums and seconds placed behind the Bergamo champion.
Breezy Johnson, however, had to stop even before the blue tip, when in early January she fell in training at Passo San Pellegrino. Having skipped the Zauchensee races, he attempted to return to Cortina but, during the second test, another flight in the Duca d'Aosta area cost the rest of the season and above all the Olympic dream to the unfortunate American downhill skier.
However, it emerges that the operation undergone on the right knee, as revealed by "Ski Racing" by interviewing Johnson herself in the last few hours, was actually much "heavier" than what emerged months ago. So much so that the 26-year-old from Wyoming will only be back on skis in September, if all goes as planned. "I tore a large piece of cartilage from my knee when I fell in Cortina, but before I had already suffered the injury of the cruciate, although I was still able to ski - explains the same leader in the stars and stripes speed sector - I didn't want to talk about it, since already many athletes suffer this type of injury, but in the end I decided to give up the Olympics when I realized that I could not fight for a medal.
I would have been able to participate, but my goal was another ”.
Johnson was operated on February 3 in Vail, on that knee already broken in 2018 in Chile (but suffered two serious injuries, before and after, to the tibial plateau and also to the left knee), with the reconstruction of the cruciate, the repair of the meniscus root and cartilage replacement. "We are on track to return to the snow in September - explained the person concerned again in the interview - Unfortunately, I know very well how to recover from injuries, even if at this moment my body still cannot bear certain loads in the gym, and I hide that this makes everything more difficult, even mentally.
But I love the feeling of running and I know it's still worth it, I won't give up ”.
MUFFAT-JEANDET ON THE TRACK
There is another excellent injury in the white circus who, fortunately, is already back on track and immediately felt excellent sensations for next season.
We are talking about Victor Muffat-Jeandet, who suffered a very bad fracture in his right ankle during the discussed, to say the least, slalom in Zagreb that took place last January 6 and then definitively interrupted some descents after the accident that occurred to the transalpine slalomgigantista. . VMJ has resumed snow preparation for almost three weeks, finding good conditions first in Val Thorens and then in Avoriaz.
To his colleagues from “Ski Chrono”, the combined Olympic bronze medalist in PyeongChang 2018 (who lost the chance to defend that medal in Beijing 2022) he told about his recovery, after six weeks of plaster. “Everything is going quite well, I almost finished with the rehabilitation even if it was not easy, because the ankle was very stiff and I was also struggling to walk after removing the cast.
On skis, in reality, it is as if I had never stopped, even if in slalom it took more time to find the feeling. I will also work more in June and July considering my situation, but I will also have to pay attention to the loads for the return to Argentina at the end of August (the French will return to Ushuaia like many other national teams, ed). I also learned from this injury and the positive side is that I feel fresh and ready ”.
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