Sofia Goggia underwent "successful" surgery to reduce "a multi-fragmentary displaced articular fracture of the right tibial pilon", and will have to remain still for 40 days before starting the most active part of physiotherapy.
Fisi made it known after the fall during training in Ponte di Legno.
"Another injury that interrupts my run-up to a new downhill World Cup - declared the unfortunate champion from Bergamo before entering the operating room -, but
this time too I will be able to get back up
".
The skier from Bergamo fell in training this morning on the Temù slope, in the province of Brescia.
The skier suffered a fracture of the tibia and malleolus
After the accident, Goggia was transferred by air ambulance to the hospital in Milan, where in the afternoon she underwent surgery at the Clinica la Madonnina.
The Italian champion - underlines the federation - "was subjected, at the La Madonnina Clinic in Milan, to a CT scan and an MRI which highlighted a fracture of the tibia and tibial malleolus of the right leg, which will be surgically reduced during in the afternoon".
According to witnesses present on the Casola di Pontedilegno slope, Goggia appeared calm immediately after the fall;
Alpine rescue intervened immediately.
Once the boot was removed Goggia would have cried.
For further information Agenzia ANSA Goggia, a career full of laurels and injuries - News - Ansa.it He always skis at the limit, sometimes even beyond.
Even in training.
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Season and Cup compromised
The ski World Cup season for Sofia Goggia can be considered effectively over.
While awaiting the outcome of the operation and the precise prognosis, according to medical protocols, breaking the tibia and malleolus entails a
4-month stoppage: several weeks of rest and, subsequently, others of rehabilitation
.
It is therefore unlikely that the Italian skier will be able to retain the title of champion in the downhill.
There are four races left at the end of the season, including the final in Saalbach on March 24, each of which awards 100 points to the winner, 80 to the second and so on through the subsequent positions.
Goggia is currently leader of the World Cup freestyle ranking, with 350 points, only 89 more than her closest pursuer, the Austrian Stephanie Venier who has 261. Behind them is the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami who has 209 .
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