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Just seven days before the opening ceremony of the Lahti Nordic World Ski Championships comes bad news for the Finnish cross country ski team to waive Riitta - Liisa Roponen for insomuch back to you and '' had to undergo yesterday.
Thursday 16 February 2017 4 minutes reading time
Everything seemed to be going well during retirement premondiale Ruhpolding for the 38 year-old distance runner Roponen with his physical condition continues to improve after suffering the first herniated disc operation to a week before beginning the tour de ski.
But Tuesday '' in mid-morning training session along the Bavarian tracked, the Oulu native has suddenly felt the severe pain in the legs that stopped her daily schedule and forced to turn to doctors in the wake of the Finnish team in a collegial gathering that would It lasted two weeks.
After the first medical tests at Finnish cross-country skier and '' a lumbar disc bulge was found. Once operated in the German town in the morning today to the spine, the Germans assisted doctors with colleagues from the Finnish team have already '' dighiarato the press that the 'operation and' 'went well and recovery will begin' 'already' 'in the coming days in parallel with the return of cross-country skiers in Estonia for the races of the weekend Otepää.
So the season's over for Riitta-Liisa, but especially big disappointment for the distance runner who sees Suomi fade in only a week after its debut participation in household world.
World that presumably would be the latest in a long career that 'they view only victorious World Cup in Rybinsk back in 2007 in a 15km mass start in the technique to her historically more' 'congenial, skating. Victory in the Russian land obtained at the individual level to which are, however, '' added the three world golds won with the Finnish relay team.
With forced to forfeit Roponen grow to borsino Helsinki OEX quotes from Kaisa Mäkäräinen to be deployed in third fraction in 4x5km relay.
world with Hochfilzen in the finishing straight, the gap to Dahlmeier now irrecoverable in the overall biathlon and the most successful biathlete of Finland still in medal dry, the possibility '' to win a medal in the historical background are now un''occasione do not miss to turn a decent season in un''annata to remember for Kaisa Mäkäräinen.
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