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During his training with the Finnish team in Ramsau, the specialist will stride & egrave; injured his right foot, stumbling clumsily just 300 meters from the & rsquo; hotel.
Sunday 21 September 2014 2 minutes reading time
While returning to his hotel, & egrave; stumble on without realizing it & rsquo; dry asphalt. The first concern of the non-Finnish & egrave; was for the foot, as for the suit that it was damaged.
Even when he took his foot in the shoe, everything seemed normal, for & ograve; after a shower began to swell a lot. L & rsquo; intervention of paramedics and the subsequent transport to the hospital & egrave; was very fast, in just thirty minutes & egrave; was diagnosed with a fracture of the fifth metatarsal and the foot & egrave; been cast.
Early indications are that at least six weeks for the plaster, with Saarinen who will try & agrave; shorten recovery times, and has announced that it is already agrave &; preparing the rehabilitation program.
This & egrave; the first fracture in his career for the Finnish gi & agrave; returned to Finland, that for & ograve; remains confident since there are still two months a & rsquo; beginning of the season. The cabal & egrave; with her, given that in 2010 he had a dislocated arm only six days before the & rsquo; beginning of the season and won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Oslo.
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