Weirather twists knee in training run, downhill start uncertain

By Published On: February 9th, 2014Comments Off on Weirather twists knee in training run, downhill start uncertain
Weirather slides down the rest of Sunday's training run (GEPA/Daniel Goetzhaber)

Weirather slides down the rest of Sunday’s training run (GEPA/Daniel Goetzhaber)

Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather, her nation’s flag bearer in the Opening Ceremony and a medal contender in the Olympic downhill, super G, and giant slalom races, twisted her knee in a crash during Sunday’s (Feb. 9) downhill training run and is being evaluated for injuries.

Weirather skied out at the top section of the course, just after the first intermediate. According to early reports in the Liechtenstein newspaper Vaterland, Weirather was immediately taken to a clinic for an evaluation on her right knee. No further information has been made available by team staff regarding her condition. However, other news outlets indicate the ligaments in her knee were unaffected but she may have suffered a tibial contusion, commonly known as a bone bruise. Weirather’s first race in the Sochi Olympic Games is the downhill, scheduled for Wednesday (Feb. 12). Her start in that event is now questionable.

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About the Author: C.J. Feehan

Christine J. Feehan is a USSA Level 300 coach who spent more than a decade training athletes at U.S. ski academies - Burke, Sugar Bowl, and Killington - before serving as Editor in Chief at Ski Racing Media through 2017. She worked for the FIS on the World Cup tour for three years and then settled into her current home in Oslo, Norway.