Norwegian snowboarder Mons Röisland broke his sternum in a training crash before the Olympic Slopestyle competition. He also tore his shoulder ligaments.
Röisland spoke of the “worst fall of my life”, which did not only cost him the participation in the final.
Röisland should still be operated on Sunday, so there is no chance of a start in the Big Air in the second week of the Olympics “The Olympic Games are over for me – with a heavy heart”, he wrote on Instagram.
There, the 21-year-old showed an x-ray of his upper body, showing the protruding collarbone on the right. In a photo showing him with a face mask on his face, he stretches his right hand upwards with the pointing and small finder stretched out.
When Röisland’s team mates in the lift were on their way to the start, he lay among them in the snow to be treated “That was not a pretty sight,”said top favourite Marcus Kleveland, who, like Stale Sandbech, the Olympic runner-up of Sochi, went empty-handed. The 17 year old Redmond Gerard (USA) won gold.