Categories: Winter Sports

Ski Alpin: Janka suffers cruciate ligament rupture

A heavy blow for the Swiss Ski Association: Alpine ski racer Carlo Janka has a torn cruciate ligament a few days before the start of the World Cup season.

According to the association, the giant slalom Olympic and overall World Cup champion of 2010 suffered an injury in his right knee during training in the Diavolezza ski area (Graubünden).

“The rupture is definitely a setback. We will treat the injury conservatively for the time being,”said Janka (31), who has already left the training camp.

till 25. February 2018). Two days earlier, downhill world champion Ilka Stuhec had also suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament, the Slovenian is operated on Wednesday and will probably be missing from the Winter Games.

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