Snowboarder Silvia Mittermüller’s big dream of starting at the Olympic Games has come true.
The 34-year-old got a tear in her meniscus on Monday morning during the training for the slopestyle competition at Phoenix Snow Park in Bokwang. That’s what Mittermüller announced via Instagram:”That’s it with Olympic snowboarding for me,”she wrote about X-ray images of her knee.
The accident happened during the last training run at the last jump. Mittermüller, who was still in bed with a fever the night before, was gripped by a gust of wind “I tried everything, despite the difficult situation with sickness and wind. Was it the right decision? I don’t know,”she wrote on Twitter. Also the qualification for the final in the Big Air on 19. She cannot now deny it in February.
On Sunday, Mittermüller had tweeted after the cancellation of the slopestyle qualification:”The wind has caught our competition today – and so have I. I’ve been cold with two blankets and a fever since I got home. She later posted a photo of her extensive first-aid kit with the line:”Hope for the magic of a German team doctor to make me feel normal again in the next eight or nine hours.”