Swiss Corinne Suter, 2022 Olympic downhill champion, must end her season after injuring her left knee during the first descent of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Swiss Ski Federation announced on Friday. “Examinations carried out at the Hirslanden clinic in Zurich revealed a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, as well as a lesion of the meniscus of the left knee,” Swiss-ski explained in a press release. “Corinne will have surgery (Saturday) morning. If the recovery goes as planned, she will be able to resume competition normally next winter,” we add.
Suter, 29, was injured on the landing of a jump not far from where American Mikaela Shiffrin fell heavily, without seriousness. The Swiss did not fall, but immediately understood the seriousness of her injury and stopped her race. She was evacuated first by snowcat and then by helicopter.
Suter was crowned downhill world champion in 2021 on this same track at the “Olympia delle Tofane”, one of her five medals in the World Championships. This season, his best result was his 8th place in the super-G in St-Moritz (Switzerland). Another Swiss woman, Michelle Gisin, was injured on Friday “at the level of the right tibia”, said her federation, without giving further details for the moment. The double Olympic combined champion (2018, 2022) will not take part in the other two races on the program, added Swiss-Ski.
