Shock for Italy’s ski alpine superstar Federica Brignone. The overall World Cup winner was seriously injured in the Italian championships in the event of a fall – the diagnosis gives no good guys with a view to the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Federica Brignone suffered serious injuries in the fall in the giant slalom of the Italian championships in Val di Fassa.
The 34-year-old fell in the second round of the goal and, according to the Italian ski association, contracted a “multi-fragment fracture of the shin head and the fibula head of the left leg”.
Brignone will only think of skiing for a long time, you are facing a long rehab. Much bad news ten months before the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Brignone was flown to a hospital in Trento after her fall, where she underwent computer tomography. She now wants to move the medical department to Milan in order to determine the further procedure, including the necessary “surgical process”, it was said by the Italian ski association.
Ski Alpin: Federica Brignone dominated the season
Brignone actually has a dream season, dominated the World Cup winter with a total of ten wins and, in addition to the large crystal ball of the overall World Cup winner, also won the discipline ratings in the departure and in the giant slalom.
At the Alpine World Ski Championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Brignone won gold in the giant slalom and silver in the Super-G. All the more bitter is the fall and the serious injury to the comparatively secondary national title fights.
The Italian has started in the World Cup since 2007, won 37 World Cup races in her career, twice the overall ranking and twice World Cup gold. At the Olympics, she has achieved bronze twice and once silver. In Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, she wants to gild her career – a goal that should now be very difficult to reach.