Ski Alpin: Anna Veith is back between the gates

Alpine ski star Anna Veith wants to take her time with her comeback.Since “a few days” she has been training with goals again, the 28-year-old explained on Friday at the EUROPARK Salzburg.

She had a good feeling and no pain.The woman from Salzburg is “perhaps” about 70 percent “of her performance potential and wants to feel her way step by step.

“I’ve only driven in flat terrain.But it was very positive that it worked in the giant slalom, because it was always the discipline where I had the most pain and where the pressure is going to be highest “, Veith explained.

The overall World Cup winner 2014 and 2015 had to undergo knee surgery again last winter after her comeback.Thereby, a chronically inflamed patellar tendon in the left knee was treated.In October 2015, she had suffered tears of the anterior cruciate ligament, the inner collateral ligament and the patella tendon in the other leg during a training fall in Sölden, and then she had failed until the end of December 2016.

However, Veith emphasized that she was not yet in full possession of her powers, saying,”Are 100 percent what was before the injury?If so, I might be at 70 percent by now, if anything.But it is difficult to say when she will be back in the World Cup at the start,” he says.

The plan still envisages attacking first in the speed disciplines:”Priority is Super-G, later on downhill,”she explained,”I can’t now build up three disciplines at the same time.This isn’t working.I need to focus on something now, if it’s going well, then you can think further.”

If all goes according to plan, it could be possible to return to Lake Louise in Canada in early December.I don’t know if I’m in Lake Louise, but Veith doesn’t think about it.If I can’t say yet, I haven’t planned yet,”she said.