For ski racer Stefan Luitz, the World Cup season is probably over before it even begins. The 31-year-old from Allgäu suffered a broken ankle during training in Pitztal.
Shock for Stefan Luitz and the German Ski Association (DSV). The ski racer from SC Bolsterlang suffered a broken ankle during training on the Pitztal Glacier. This begins another period of suffering for Luitz, who actually wanted to regain his old strength this World Cup season.
Broken ankle and Syndesmotic ligament tear
As the DSV announced on Instagram on Tuesday, Luitz suffered a “fracture of the right lateral malleolus and tear of the syndesmotic ligament”. The ski racer suffered the injury during giant slalom training when he pulled in at a gate. Luitz will be operated on in the next few days, the DSV continued. For Luitz, who made his comeback last winter after a herniated disc, this is the next serious injury including a long period of downtime.
Luitzs Tale of suffering continues
Because of the herniated disc, he had to cancel the 2022 Winter Olympics due to injury. He suffered serious knee injuries in 2017 (torn cruciate ligament) and 2019 (torn medial ligament). Now the renewed injury ends Luitz’s World Cup season before it even began.
New start in the Global Racing Team
Luitz actually wanted to fight his way back to the top of the world and had joined the international “Global Racing Team” to do so. The Global Racing Team, with which he is now training, is “an international racing team where cases like this are now the case with me from different nations come together. […] It’s a normally functioning team, just like an association team, just with an international cast,” said Luitz, describing his new sporting home in the BR24Sport podcast “Pizza & Fries”.
His twelve teammates come from Denmark, Latvia, the USA, Australia, Estonia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. He would still have started for the DSV, but nothing will come of that for the time being.
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Source: BR24Sport on the radio October 17, 2023 – 3:54 p.m
