Shock injury for Sofia Goggia: she falls in training and breaks her tibia and ankle
The champion will be missing from the slopes for a long time, perhaps the season is over. Certainly, the dream of winning the fifth downhill world title is vanishing this year
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Shock injury for Sofia Goggia. The champion from Bergamo fell while training on the Temù track, in the Brescia area .
The skier hit a door with her right leg during training, the injury immediately appeared serious and there was talk of a suspected fracture of the tibia and fibula.
Goggia was taken to Milan and the tests confirmed: there is a fracture, but to the tibia and malleolus .
«Sofia Goggia – we read in the Fisi press release – underwent a CT scan and an MRI at the La Madonnina Clinic in Milan which highlighted a fracture of the tibia and tibial malleolus of the right leg, which will be surgically reduced during in the afternoon. The operation will be carried out by Dr Andrea Panzeri, President of the Fisi Medical Commission, in collaboration with Dr Riccardo Accept, head of the Traumatology Unit of the IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital".
Then operation, long injury and goodbye to the dream of winning the downhill world cup for the fifth time this year , a discipline of which she is the undisputed queen and also this season the leader with 350 points.
(Unioneonline/L)
