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Dario Cologna & egrave; Today was the victim of a muscle injury in his left calf that impedir & agrave; to take part in the climb to Alpe Cermis tomorrow.
Saturday 9 January 2016 2 minutes reading time
The three-time winner of the Tour de Ski this morning occupied the seventh position in the overall standings, and was in the fight for the stage win until the tenth kilometer, when he suddenly lost queues Sundby then yield completely and get to the finish with almost three minutes behind the winner.
His debacle for & ograve; is not serious; It was caused by a simple crisis, but from a muscle problem. Cologna has complained in fact a pain in the left calf and, in consultation with the team doctor Swiss Hanspeter Betschart, he decided to return to their homeland already & agrave; tonight to undergo MRI tomorrow afternoon in Davos. For him, therefore, the Tour de Ski & egrave; gi & agrave; finished.
This is the comment of the double Olympic champion in Sochi: & ldquo; Today I felt fit and I had excellent materials. & Egrave; therefore extremely difficult to accept the need to abandon the Tour de Ski shortly before the end because of an injury. I just have to wait for the results of the investigations to which I sottoporr & ograve; tomorrow and consequently assess how to organize the rest of my season & rdquo ;.
Ends cos & Igrave; in the worst way the Tour de Ski Cologna family: his brother Gianluca fact & egrave; He was forced to give gi & agrave; the stages of Lenzerheide because of an illness of the season.
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