Norwegian Big Crystal Globe title holder Aleksander Aamodt Kilde suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his right knee in training on Saturday and is due to end his season, the Norwegian Ski Federation said. .
Currently second in the Alpine Skiing World Cup standings behind Frenchman Alexis Pinturault, the 28-year-old was injured in a fall during super-G training in Austria at Hinterreit.
“This is what I feared but did not hope for.
I'm in good hands and I have a lot of people around me with a lot of experience, so it's going to be fine, ”said Kilde, quoted in the federation statement.
"It's all the more annoying that I'm in the best shape of my life, but I'll be back in force."
“So the season is over and I just have to wait for brighter days. It really sucks ”
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
After his fall in Hinterreit, the Norwegian was hospitalized in Innsbruck, where the rupture of the cruciate ligament of the right knee was noted.
“So the season is over and I just have to wait for brighter days.
It really sucks ”, he reacted to the microphone of the TV2 channel when he left the clinic.
This physical monster (1.81 m, 95 kg) with an impressive commitment ski, who had never suffered a serious injury in his career, announced that he would probably be operated on Sunday.
The misfortunes of Kilde are the business of his rivals for the general classification and in particular of the Frenchman Alexis Pinturault, his runner-up last winter, in the lead halfway through the season with 158 points ahead of Kilde and 217 points of ahead of the Swiss Marco Odermatt.
Less than a month before the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy, February 8-21) it is a new blow for Norway, a week after the serious injury to the right knee of the nugget Lucas Braathen (20 years) in Adelboden (Switzerland).
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