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Winter Olympics: Swiss snowboarder Wicki out after tearing same ACL for second time this year
Wicki will have season-ending surgery after a second ACL tear this year, forcing her out of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics less than two months away.
- In Davos, the Swiss team announced that Olympic snowboarder Berenice Wicki will miss the Milan Cortina Winter Games after tearing her left ACL for the second time this year.
- She crashed in training last week at Secret Garden in China and returned to Switzerland for medical tests after an earlier February injury caused her to miss the freestyle skiing world championships in Switzerland.
- At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Wicki placed seventh in the women's halfpipe finals while Chloe Kim retained the title.
- The Swiss ski federation said she will undergo season-ending surgery next week, less than two months before the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
- Her knee was first injured in February, causing her to miss the freestyle skiing world championships the following month in Switzerland, and the crash in China last week plus the Davos announcement end her season.
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Winter Olympics: Swiss snowboarder Wicki out after tearing same ACL for second time this year
Olympic snowboarder Berenice Wicki will miss the Milan Cortina Winter Games after tearing her left ACL for the second time this year.
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