Ski jumping: Cross ribbon rupture: Olympia Aus für Skispringerin Würth

Ski jumper Svenja Würth suffered a torn cruciate ligament in her left knee during her fall on Saturday in Hinterzarten and is now in the 9th Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang/South Korea. till 25. February). This was announced by the German Ski Association (DSV) on Tuesday.

“I have already mastered other challenges in 2014, and I accept this situation. The first frustration is digested, I’m looking forward – not to the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, but to the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld,”said Würth.

National coach Andreas Bauer explained:”This is a bitter diagnosis for Svenja and for us as a team. She had already missed the Olympic Games in Sochi because of an injury, now she is back seven weeks before Pyeongchang. But Svenja is a very professional and strong athlete who always gets up.”

The 24-year-old mixed world champion from Baiersbronn had fallen heavily at the first team competition in World Cup history and had been taken to hospital.

The mishap brought back memories of the 3. In January 2014 Würth was awake when he had fallen heavily in the Russian Tchaikovsky. At that time, she was even threatened with paraplegia because of a fracture of the sixth cervical vertebra:”There were two or three millimeters missing, and then I would be sitting in a wheelchair,”Würth later said.