Another devastating stop for Sofia Goggia. The Olympic champion in downhill will not be at the world championships in Cortina due to the fall that took place Sunday morning on the return track of the female supergiant canceled on the Garmisch track due to fog.
There was an immediate feeling that the 28-year-old from Bergamo was seriously injured. Immediately after the first checks in Germany she was taken to Italy. At the Madonnina clinic in Milan it was ascertained that he suffered a sprain-blunt trauma to his right knee and a compound fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of the right knee.
There are no ligament problems and the skier will not have to be operated on, but she is impossible for the blue skier to participate in the world championships starting in a week in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The stop will be at least 45 days and the season seems over also because a rehabilitation period will be needed.
There are dozens of injuries in the career of the skier from Bergamo who has always been strong and able to return. Last time not even a year ago. Always on the track of Garmisch, in February 2020, a displaced fracture to the radius in his left arm ended his season. This year she returned with four consecutive downhill victories.
He was just 18 in 2010 when he ruptured the cruciate ligaments of both knees. It could have been the end of his career. He returned in 2012 and again an injury: a strain to the collateral ligaments of both knees and a fracture of the tibial plateau of the right leg. In 2014 it was the turn of the cruciate ligament of the right knee. In October 2018 the fracture of the fibular malleolus of the right leg in training in Hintertux.
In the midst of this myriad of injuries dozens of victories including the victory of the downhill world cup in the 2017/18 season, two world medals (silver in supergiant in Are 2019 and a bronze in giant in St. Moritz 2017) and the Olympic downhill title at PyoengChang 2018.
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