Victim of a serious fall this Friday during super-G training at Copper Mountain, in the United States, Lara Gut-Behrami (34 years old) could suffer from a double rupture of the cruciate ligament and the meniscus, according to her surgeon. Swiss coach Beat Tschuor wants to be more optimistic while waiting for the additional exams, scheduled for next week in Geneva.
End of career or end of season only for Lara Gut-Behrami (34 years old)? After the terrible fall of the Swiss champion during training for the super-G at Copper Mountain, this Friday in the United States, the case of the double world champion at the Worlds in Cortina d’Ampezzo (in 2021) is being debated. Some, led by her surgeon, believe that the Olympic champion in the specialty during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games will never be able to ski at the highest level again.
“His anterior and internal lateral cruciate ligaments are torn. She also suffers from a meniscus lesion,” said a confident Olivier Siegrist while the daily
Click understands that of all the doctors present at the scene of the accident, he is the only one who did not examine the one he had operated on in 2017.
And while Siegrist already foresees the end for “LGB”, the coach of the Swiss team wants to maintain hope of seeing his protégé one day in competition despite this serious fall which could however force her to end her career sooner than she could have thought.
What if Gut-Behrami escaped without serious injury?
Beat Tschuor goes even further: he does not want to believe the first diagnoses. And while waiting for the additional examinations that the double winner of the big crystal globe will undergo in Geneva next week “we will know more at that time”), the Swiss technician wants to be optimistic.
“What I can say is that she has a mild concussion. His left knee seems injured, but nothing is certain yet. Everything you read is just speculation,” insisted Tschuor on Friday, who had just spoken twice with the 34-year-old skier.
The person concerned is even certain that these new examinations to which Gut-Behrami will take could hold a pleasant surprise. And the champion with 48 World Cup victories (101 podiums), 3rd in the Sölden giant last month, escaped without serious injury.
