Double party for Canada that finds two talents: Grenier and Thompson are back on the snow

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The multipurpose at the Stelvio, for the first time with the team mates after more than a year and a half. For the downhill skier, almost two years after the crash of Nakiska, first training sessions in Saas-Fee.

Friday 4 September 2020 4 minutes reading time

A double celebration for a national team that needs important spare parts and can now finally embrace two talents stopped by bad luck. In recent days, Canada has seen Valérie Grenier and Broderick Thompson return to the snow, with the ''96 native of Ontario engaged with teammates in the summer base of the North American national team at the Stelvio, while the 26-year-old sprinter from Whistler put his skis back on in Saas-Fee. In Thompson's case, almost two years have passed since the terrible injury he sustained in the fall of 2018 in Nakiska, when in training before the Lake Louise races, a fall cost him the rupture of the cruciate, collateral, meniscus and patellar tendon of the knee. Valérie Grenier, on the other hand, had already approached the snow last winter, but only in August was she finally able to train with the national team, 18 months after that test of the world descent of Are that was devastating for her career, just after obtaining the best result in his career (4th in the super-g in Cortina) and 6th place in the Olympic combined in PyeongChang. Tibia, fibula and right ankle knocked out, all to be reconstructed with patience for the 24 year old from St. Isidore, who after the first approach to the Stelvio returned to Ontario together with her teammate Laurence St-Germain. "We have to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine, but we have the gym and everything we need to overcome it well - he told Alpine Canada - After the injury in February 2019, it was difficult from a psychological point of view because I was thinking of a faster recovery, but once I realized that I would not be back in the 19/20 season, I focused on small goals and changed a lot of things. It was fantastic to find the group of my teammates again, just skiing with them is great ”, said Grenier for whom there is still no expected date for a“ new debut ”.

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