“It’s hard for me to accept”: Italian skier struggles with fate after bad luck with injury

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This is not how Karoline Pichler (29) imagined her trip to St. Moritz GR. Instead of having the first races of the season under his belt, the Italian speed specialist left the Engadin with a serious injury.

“It happened when I landed after the jump,” Pichler recalled of the fatal moment to sportnews.bz. “I felt a burning pain, but I thought it was a muscle closing.” So she continued her journey.

Pichler then visited the doctor as a precaution. What emerged is devastating. Torn medial meniscus and basket handle in his left knee spell season-ending.

Drove with a broken cruciate ligament

“I still have trouble accepting it,” says the long-suffering Pichler. In her early 20s, she suffered four serious knee injuries within 33 months. It wasn’t until the end of January that she tore her cruciate ligament during training – also on the left side. At that point, she decided against surgery and relied on alternative healing methods.

And so he took a risk. “It’s hypothetical to say that if the ACL had been repaired, I would have been unharmed,” says Pichler, who doesn’t blame himself. Because it has never bothered her in the past eight months.

In this respect, Pichler was at least lucky in adversity – if you can call it that. Since she needs to undergo surgery for her recent injury, her damaged ACL will also be repaired in the same procedure. She doesn’t want to think about not being on skis for the next eight months.

Four fellow sufferers

“The most important thing is that I get completely healthy again,” says Pichler. “It’s not easy for me right now, there are a lot of negative thoughts.” Yet she has no choice but to accept the situation. But even the fact that she was injured more seriously and regained fitness was “only weak motivation to get things back on track.”

Pichler is not alone in her fate. Four other athletes were seriously injured in St. Moritz: Nina Ortlieb (27, broken tibia and fibula), Elisabeth Reisinger (27, torn cruciate ligament), Elena Curtoni (32, complicated fracture of the sacrum) and Inni Holm Wembstad (23, torn cruciate ligament). (beer)

Source : Blick