Ski star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde needs another operation after his horror fall. His partner Mikaela Shiffrin reacts emotionally.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has to undergo another operation after his serious accident. An operation on his shoulder was scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Innsbruck, during which two ligaments were torn. The Norwegian announced this on social networks.
“I’m grateful that nothing is broken,” he adds. “But I suffered several injuries, including a fairly serious flesh wound in the calf with damaged nerves that required urgent surgery, as well as a dislocated shoulder.” Kilde also wrote with a laughing smiley that he wasn’t showing photos of the wound because he thought it would make many people sick.
In a horror fall: Kilde suffers nerve damage
Fortunately, the nerves necessary for motor skills remained intact, Kilde said in an interview with the streaming platform Viaplay, according to the Norwegian news agency NTB. However, this nerve damage would take some time to heal.
The Scandinavian, the dominator in downhill skiing in recent years, was flown by helicopter to Bern after the fall and was operated on there. His girlfriend Mikaela Shiffrin visited him there before she competed and won the World Cup slalom in Flachau, Austria on Tuesday. “Your strength is more than impressive…” wrote the best skier of the moment on her partner’s entry.
Shiffrin is emotional about Kilde
“It feels like I’ve lived a thousand lives in the last four days,” wrote the American on Instagram, “and I’m not the one who chased it straight into the safety net at 120 km/h.”
She couldn’t put into words “how much joy and energy Aleks brings into my life,” Shiffrin continued. “I watched on TV how it was torn apart in Wengen and then thrown into the air.”
“It made me want, want to burn the universe down”
She emotionally described how she rushed to the hospital and feared for her boyfriend as he underwent surgery after the accident. “I don’t even know how to explain this, but it made me want to burn down the universe,” Shiffrin wrote.
Kilde, on the other hand, “never once lost patience, even though he had many reasons for it. He is inspiring, considerate and caring and brings out the best in everyone around him, even in his most difficult moments.”
She went into the race in Flachau with mixed feelings and thought: “If you want to be here now and not with him, then you should make it worth it.” Shiffrin thanked her team “for moving heaven and earth to help us get to Aleks as quickly as possible.”