Ski Alpin: Despite torn cruciate ligament: Neureuther still hoping for Olympic start

Felix Neureuther has not given up hope for a start at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, despite his cruciate ligament rupture in training:”As long as there is still a little bit of hope that Olympia might actually be possible, I will try to seize every little bit of hope,”said the 33-year-old on Monday morning after his return from the USA to Munich.

Neureuther admitted that participating in the Olympics was “a daydreaming in my head” and “at the moment also” far away “. He also emphasized:”I only go to the start if I have a medal chance. Until the start of the Olympic slalom on 22. February 2018, there are still a good twelve weeks.

The Partenkirchner was picked up at the airport by his father Christian Neureuther. Initially, a visit to Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, a sports physician, was planned. In addition, the knee specialist Professor. Christian Fink from the University Hospital Innsbruck. Should Neureuther have the possibility of a conservative treatment, an Olympic start would no longer be ruled out. In the case of an operation, however, this project is not possible.

Felix Neureuther, the third World Cup runner-up Felix Neureuther, had last Saturday in practice for the giant slalom on 3 March. December in Beaver Creek a torn cruciate ligament in the left knee. Two weeks earlier he had won the first seasonal slalom in Levi, Finland, underlining his ambitions for his first Olympic medal. Neureuther said on Monday, he was “without a doubt” in the form of his life.