Knee injury to Matthias Mayer blowing giant Slden

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Knee injury to Matthias Mayer blowing giant Slden

Bad start their first season as Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer.

L & rsquo; Austrian & egrave; hurt in training on the Pitztal Glacier acquiring an injury to the medial collateral ligament in his right knee and a blow to the back. Therefore sar & agrave; forced to miss the giant d & rsquo; opening of the World Cup in S & ouml; Sölden on October 26th. & Ldquo; E & rsquo; a big shame not to be able to compete on the Rettenbach, the season is about to begin and this makes me very positive & rdquo; Mayer said after undergoing the clinical Kettenbr & uuml; cke of Innsbruck. Cos & igrave; in the interior selections for tomorrow on the Pitztal (originally Fridays & igrave, but then have been anticipated for adverse weather) in five will be played not one but two places for the race of S & ouml; Sölden: Stefan Brennsteiner, Vincent Kriechmayr, Roland Leitiger, Florian Scheiber and Marco Schwarz, Gi & agrave; sure to compete Manuel Feller, Marcel Hirscher, Marcel Mathis, Christoph N & ouml; Mr, Benjamin Raich, Hannes Reichelt and Philipp Sch & ouml; rghofer. Seven girls will compete Friday & igrave; on the glacier of M & ouml; lltal for the four available seats in the female giant Rettenbach Saturday 25, completing cos & igrave; the Austrian contingent of nine men and ten women. Securing compete Eva-Maria Brem, Anna Fenninger, Elisabeth G & ouml; rgl, Michaela Kirchgasser, Carmen Thalmann and Kathrin Zettel, will compete in qualifying internal Stephanie Brunner, Andrea Fischbacher, Ricarda Haaser, Hannah Hofer, Elisabeth Kappaurer, Rosina Schneeberger and Ramona Siebenhofer . Sources: http://www.skionline.ch/index.php?section=news&cmd=details&newsid=42984&teaserId=5
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