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The sprinter who crashed at the end of February in the super-g in Val di Fassa is still in the first post-intervention phase. Braathen and McGrath already at an excellent point, for Sejersted still many doubts.
Tuesday 23 March 2021 4 minutes reading time
She reunited with her teammates for the first day they spent together in the gym, even though she herself can't work on her injured leg yet.
Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, 23 days after the terrible fall in the super-g of Passo San Pellegrino, with subsequent surgery on her tibia and fibula in Innsbruck in the following hours, has entered the first phase of recovery that will have to bring her back on track next season, she who was experiencing that of his explosion. The 22-year-old Norwegian underwent a small surgery for the reconstruction of some teeth, and then enjoyed a few hours alongside the three young champions of the male team forced, like Kajsa, to interrupt their season prematurely.
Let's talk about Lucas Braathen, Atle Lie McGrath and Adrian Smiseth Sejersted; all three are already in the gym working hard, with the Brazilian-born gigantist already making excellent progress, after having destroyed his left knee cruciate last January 8, in the first giant in Adelboden. He will return to Soelden, where he triumphed last October, as we will certainly see in the opening on the Rettenbach his "twin" McGrath, second on the Gran Risa before injuring the collateral in the first heat of the same giant on the Chuenisbargli, a result then cursed also for Braathen.
The situation regarding Adrian Smiseth Sejersted is more complicated: the 26-year-old sprinter who, in the first part of the season, was able to get on the podium in the super-g in Val d''Isère (2nd) and Bormio (3rd), he had stopped just after the descent on the Stelvio, due to knee pains that stopped him definitively after the attempt to return to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The problem is serious and concerns the cartilage, with a possible osteoarthritis that would have led the doctors to advise Sejersted to say enough with the ski.
The junior downhill world champion (title won in Jasna in 2014), however, still wants to try. "In the best case I can keep my knee under control with the help of therapies and training - explained the sprinter himself to TV2 - It's true, the doctor advised me to stop, in case it goes wrong I'll do it, but only after seeing how it will go after this rehabilitation phase ”.
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