US EditionSwiss Ski Star Lara Gut-Behrami’s Olympics in Doubt After Injuring Knee in Training Fall in Colorado
Lara Gut-Behrami, 34, faces a possible career-ending ACL injury after falling in super-G training while preparing for her final Olympic season, Swiss team said.
- On Friday, the Swiss team said Lara Gut-Behrami damaged her left knee during training in the United States, with initial tests showing a left knee injury that the federation said could be career-ending.
- During super‑G training Thursday at Copper Mountain in Colorado, Lara Gut-Behrami fell and is returning to Switzerland for medical examinations after preparing for the Winter Games.
- Swiss daily Blick reported a suspected ACL tear for Lara Gut-Behrami, three-time Olympic medalist, who started the season with a third-place finish last month at Soelden, Austria.
- Gut-Behrami's Olympic bid is now in doubt, as she was due to compete at her fourth Olympics in February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, and her retirement and move to England could be affected.
- The 34‑year‑old champion, Lara Gut-Behrami, missed the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games due to a serious hip injury, highlighting prior major setbacks in her career.
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The serious fears about Lara Gut-Behrami's training injury seem to have come true. Her counselor now explains: "Your front cruciate ligament and her inner ligament are torn. She also suffers from a meniscus injury. "The dream of Olympia probably burst – the career probably ended prematurely. Olivier Siegrist is regarded as a counselor of Gut-Behrami and has now explained to Le Nouvelliste that the ski exception may have called him. "She said tha…
Switzerland, which starts the last season of its career, falls into training.
After her knee injury, Lara Gut-Behrami threatens an abrupt career end. We look back on her career.
Highlighted a injury to the left knee. Now is also at risk the career reached the last season, with the appointment of Milan Cortina scheduled in February
Lara Gut-Behrami falls heavily during training in Copper Mountain. Diagnosis could mean the end of her impressive career.
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