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From Goggia to Valentino, those crazy lightning-fast recoveries

2022-02-15T10:19:58.242Z


Injuries and record returns, in football also Baresi and Totti (ANSA) We often speak of "miraculous recoveries". In reality they are the result of passion, determination - combined with the help of increasingly advanced medical science - and often even a pinch of madness. These are the ingredients that quickly bring athletes back to competitive spirit that an injury seemed to have put out of action for a long time, if not forever.     The silver won today by Sofia G


We often speak of "miraculous recoveries".

In reality they are the result of passion, determination - combined with the help of increasingly advanced medical science - and often even a pinch of madness.

These are the ingredients that quickly bring athletes back to competitive spirit that an injury seemed to have put out of action for a long time, if not forever.


    The silver won today by Sofia

Goggi

in the free ascent of the Beijing Games, 23 days after the fall of Cortina, is just the latest example.


There are several precedents that tell the accelerations of athletes, even at the cost of taking risks.

As happened to

Marc Marquez

in 2020, when he then paid for the risk of being back on track two days after the operation on his right arm, which was fractured in Jerez.

He got better,

Jorge Lorenzo

.

The Spaniard breaks his left collarbone in Assen, in Thursday's free practice.

Operated the same night, the day of the race (Saturday) he is at the start and finishes fifth, just 35 hours after the intervention.

USA soccer world cup '94.

Franco Baresi

, captain of Italy is injured.

The diagnosis is worrying: meniscal tear in the right knee.

Arthroscopic surgery follows.

The patient is so motivated that he returns to the field on July 17, in time for the final against Brazil, just 25 days later.


Another world dream that seems to be breaking is that of

Francesco Totti

, on February 19, 2006, when an intervention by the Empoli Vanigli threatens to compromise the career of the Roma captain.

Fibula fracture, at least 5 months off, but after 100 days Totti is already racing towards the title.


In the match between Parma and Brescia, 2004 Italian Cup,

Roberto Baggio

suffered the rupture of the cruciate ligament of the right knee and injury of the external meniscus.

A very serious injury, even more so for a 36 year old.

But the 'divine tail' does not give up and returns to the field 81 days after the surgery.


Another exemplary case is that of the skier

Pirmin Zurbriggen

who, shortly after seriously injuring his knee (he was operated on to the meniscus) during his first downhill victory on the Streif in Kitzbuhel, managed to win the first of his 4 World Cups in the standings. general in 1984. In 2001 the Austrian

Hermann Maier

is hit by a car while he is on a motorcycle.

He even risks having a leg amputated.

But in 2003, after various operations, he returns to the race and the


Returning to the bikes, it is worth mentioning

Valentino Rossi

's quick return to Mugello in 2010, when he suffered an exposed fracture of the tibia and fibula of his right leg in practice.

Two interventions follow, but 30 days later Rossi is riding a Yamaha SBK, on ​​the Misano track.

After 41 days he is in the race: at the Sachsenring he comes fourth. 


Source: ansa

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