Ua bad fall on the Casola nera slope, in Ponte di Legno, e the immediate rush to Milan for a quick operation. The world ski champion Sofia Goggia this morning took a curve badly during training on the slopes and she fractured her tibia and malleolus.
A career full of records and many injuries
The downhill skier from Bergamo was immediately taken to Milan, to the Madonnina clinic, for one CT scan and MRIwho found the fractures. Dr. performed the surgery Andrea Panzeripresident of the Medical Commission of the Ski Federation, in collaboration with Riccardo Accept, head of Traumatology at the Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio hospital in Milan.
At 32 years old, Sofia Goggia is no stranger to injuries, on the contrary, over the course of his career he can already count about ten, and as many record-breaking “rebirths” in which she went to reconquer her trophies. The first interventions when he was still 15 and 16 years old, due to injuries to the cruciate ligaments and meniscus.
In 2011 he suffered a head injury, nIn 2012 he broke his right knee again in Andaloduring the giant European Cup, the following year Lake Louise tears her cruciate and the two menisci of the left knee, in a World Cup downhill.
At the end of 2018 in Austria the downhill skier broke her fibula in training, in 2020 she broke her left arm in Garmish. But his record-breaking recovery is in 2022: in Cortina Sofia suffers a microfracture of the fibula, a sprained knee and a cruciate ligament injury after just 23 days he won Olympic silver in China.
How long will she have to stay away from the slopes
Of course, tAmong his goals is always to “win as much as possible”, and his achievements prove it: from four World Cups to Olympic gold in Pyeongchang 2018 to 24 World Cup victories. Also for this 2024 edition the path seemed already tracednow the unexpected injury at Ponte di Legno.
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