According to the Italian Ski Federation (FISI), the 29-year-old suffered a sprained left knee, on which a cruciate ligament injury had already been operated on in 2013, a “small fracture” of the fibula and a muscular tendon injury.
Goggia drove to the finish herself after her crash, but complained of pain and was examined in a hospital in Milan. “Sofia will begin her rehabilitation with the goal of competing at the Olympics,” the FISI statement said. Goggia has won more than half of the speed races so far this World Cup winter, including the downhill in Cortina on Saturday. However, your start in Beijing will be a race against time.
The big gold favorite could be accommodated by the fact that the women’s speed races are only on the program in the second week of the Olympics. The Super-G on February 11th is followed four days later by the downhill, in which Goggia had already triumphed at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. “I will try to defend the Olympic victory in the discipline I love the most,” said the Italian in the evening after her fall. She will start physiotherapy in the next few hours.
Source: Nachrichten
