US EditionAlpine Skiing-Bassino Faces Surgery After Leg Fracture, Olympics in Doubt
- With the Olympics scheduled next year, Marta Bassino, 29, suffered a leg fracture during Wednesday training in Val Senales, risking her participation in Milan-Cortina 2026.
- A giant slalom specialist, Bassino has six World Cup wins and claimed super-G gold at Meribel 2023, plus parallel gold at the 2021 worlds in Cortina.
- The Italian Winter Sports Federation said an X-ray at Merano hospital showed a lateral tibial plateau fracture in Bassino's left leg and she is undergoing a CT scan before planned surgery.
- Bassino joins overall World Cup champion Federica Brignone on the injured list, compounding setbacks for the Italian women's alpine team as Brignone said last week, `I don't think I'll be able to come back exactly as I was before`.
- While preparing for Sölden on Saturday, Bassino fell on a flat section of the training course, an unusual spot for such a severe injury.
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Just before arriving in Sölden, Marta Bassino, one of the leading candidates for the Italian national team's skiing medal at the Winter Olympics, was seriously injured in training.
On the same track a year ago he had found the death of Matilde Lorenzi and last week had injured the slalomist Rossetti
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Italian skier Marta Bassino joins Federica Brignone on the Olympics host's injured list
Olympics host Italy has another top female skier sidelined. Marta Bassino was diagnosed with a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau in her left leg following a crash in preseason training and was due to be operated on.
Two-time world alpine skiing champion Marta Bassino of Italy was injured just days before the start of the new World Cup season. Her participation in the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Milano, is now in doubt.
Alpine skiing-Italian Bassino suffers leg fracture, Olympics in doubt
Italian Marta Bassino faces a battle to be fit for next year's Winter Olympics on home snow after suffering a leg fracture during training on Wednesday ahead of the start of the World Cup season. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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