In the last Friday fell Thorgren during training for the world cup finals in Laax and hit in the back of the head. He got a light concussion and landslagsledningen stopped him from racing.
“We didn’t want to take any risks even if he was feeling pretty good afterwards,” says Hammar.
But now he is restored, he is one hundred per cent, and after consultation with the doctor he has been given the green light to start in the X-games.
training in Colorado have gone well and that Thorgren is ready for the most prestigious competitions in slopestyle and big air in Aspen, which starts on Thursday.
the 24-year-old has been injury prone. In the right Laax a year ago he fell and broke the collarbone. It meant that the Thorgren missed both the X games and the OLYMPICS.
Thorgren is the only Swedish snowboardåkaren who are invited to the competition in Aspen, where he who best has a third-place finish in the slopestyle 2015.
freeskiingåkare is in place for the competitions in slopestyle and big air. Henrik Harlaut has two gold medals to defend from last year. The other is Jesper Tjäder and Oscar Wester.
Inbjudningstävlingen X-games at the same time as a world cup event in slopestyle in Seiser Alm, in both freeskiing and snowboarding. The competitions is the rehearsal before the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in Park City starting on 31 January.
