Liensberger to miss Olympics after latest serious skiing accident

Austria’s Katharina Liensberger to miss Milano Cortina Winter Games aft genu wounded successful alpine skiing grooming fall.

Austria’s 2022 ‌Olympic slalom metallic medallist Katharina Liensberger volition ‍miss the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics aft suffering a superior genu wounded successful a grooming crash.

The Austrian Ski Association said Liensberger would person country connected Friday aft aesculapian examinations revealed a fracture ​of the tibial plateau, a torn meniscus ‍and a medial collateral ligament wounded successful her close knee.

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Austrian media said the 28-year-old slalom specialist’s play was implicit aft the ‍crash successful ⁠St Michael a period earlier the Olympics commencement successful Italy.

Liensberger won a squad golden and slalom metallic successful Beijing and was slalom satellite champion successful 2021. She won a slalom bronze astatine past year’s championships connected location snowfall successful ​Saalbach.

At Cortina, she would person been ‌up against American large Mikaela Shiffrin, the astir palmy World Cup skier of each time. She has won the past six World ‌Cup slaloms and 5 this season.

Olympic champion alpine skier Katharina Liensberger appears astatine the motorboat of Austria’s caller Winter Olympics azygous earlier the 2026 Games [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]

The women are racing successful Kranjska Gora, ‌Slovenia, this play with a elephantine ⁠slalom connected Saturday and slalom connected Sunday.

Liensberger has been added to a database of apical women’s skiers to person suffered superior injuries successful the ‌run-up to the Olympics.

Three Swiss Olympic champions – Michelle Gisin, Lara Gut-Behrami and Corinne Suter – person been sidelined successful ‍training incidents with the archetypal 2 ruled retired of the Games.

After the decease of Italian skier Matteo Franzoso successful a grooming mishap successful Chile in September, concerns were raised, chiefly astir however to bounds risks successful the high-speed sport.

Shiffrin added to the debate astatine the commencement of the Olympic skis play a period later, stating: “We are often grooming successful conditions wherever the variables are conscionable excessively galore to power and you person to determine sometimes: Is this unreasonably dangerous?”