The seemingly endless list of serious injuries in the Alpine skiing circus never ends. The Italian Olympic champion Sofia Goggia also has to end her season early. The 31-year-old Italian was taken to hospital in Milan after a training fall.
Italian media reported that it was a serious accident. Goggia was transported away by helicopter. As the Italian association announced, the 2018 Olympic downhill champion suffered a broken tibia and fibula.
The accident occurred on Monday morning on the Casola nera slope in Ponte di Legno in the province of Brescia, where Goggia has often prepared for races.
Lots of injuries this winter
The four-time winner of the Downhill World Cup is leading the overall ranking in the premier discipline again this winter. She won one of the five races so far and was on the podium three more times. The next departures are on the 16th/17th. February planned in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
Goggia’s expected failure would be the next in a true plague season for skiing. Ski queen Mikaela Shiffrin is currently taking a break after a serious fall in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The season of Olympic champions Petra Vlhova and Corinne Suter ended prematurely after torn cruciate ligaments.
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The men also suffered some prominent injuries. Shiffrin’s friend, the former overall World Cup winner Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, had to cut short his season with serious injuries, as did the highly decorated Alexis Pinturault and Marco Schwarz.