World Cup Skiing Searches for Answers to Its Injury Problem

World Cup Skiing Searches for Answers to Its Injury Problem

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Elisabeth

Reisinger of Austria battled to cut her skis around a general, right-footed turn falling off a hop on the Mont Lachaux downhill course. Shocked by a pressure in the day off, was hurled in reverse and lost control. She slammed hard, sliding carelessly into two boards of security netting covering the racecourse. Sitting up, she shouted, waving for help. 

Reisinger, 23, was gone to by an on-course specialist who showed up around 60 seconds after the accident. She was transported off the mountain and treated at a close by emergency clinic for a wounded tibia and a front cruciate tendon tear. 

The knee injury, which happened a month ago and finished her season, was another in a disturbing arrangement of them on the World Cup ski visit this season. It is an issue the game is hoping to go up against, even as it stands by to check whether the rest of this season — which was planned to end with the World Cup finals in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in the not so distant future — will be dropped in response to the coronavirus episode. 

"This is, shockingly, the standard injury that we have in our game," Peter Gerdol, the World Cup ladies' race chief, said of knee wounds like Reisinger's. "I generally have a terrible inclination when this occurs, however it's something, sadly, we can't maintain a strategic distance from. It's a piece of the game." 

Ilka Stuhec, a double cross world downhill victor from Slovenia, said the savagely serious nature of the 100-year-old adrenaline sport is an explanation behind its high number of accidents and wounds. 

"On the off chance that you need to win, you need to go truly near the slender line between extremely agreeable, pleasant skiing and truly assaulting and losing control," Stuhec said. "At the point when you attempt to push, botches occur, and once in a while you can't deal with it." 

While competitors facing challenges at speeds coming to around 87 miles for each hour (140 kilometers for every hour) is one explanation behind wounds, there are others: the appearance of profoundly formed, shorter and more extensive skis that expansion force and pressure on knees; the exhausting race plan from late October to mid-March; and the weight of planning safe courses in whimsical climate. 

Horrible climate and poor snow surfaces have dropped races this season in Russia, Italy, France and Japan and an up and coming ladies' occasion in Germany. Race executives, now and again, have brought starts of downhill races down to rescue rivalries. 

"A few races are entirely terrible with the evolving day off, it's frosty, at that point you have hold and afterward you don't have grasp, at that point everything snowballs," Stuhec said. 

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Top racers who have been harmed this season incorporate Sofia Goggia, an Italian who won gold in the declining at the 2018 Olympics, and Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany. The two of them endured season-finishing wounds at a super-G race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, a month ago. Goggia broke her left arm in the wake of falling and smacking a door; Rebensburg harmed a knee only 24 hours subsequent to winning a declining race. 

"It's an adrenaline game, and there are a ton of races," said Ester Ledecka, an Olympic gold medalist in skiing and snowboarding for the Czech Republic. "You need to continue onward, continue onward, and when you're drained and you have trainings and races, at that point you are on the cutoff here and there." 

On the men's side, Dominik Paris, a 14-time World Cup downhill champ from Italy, tore an A.C.L. while preparing in January. Adrien Théaux of France endured a comparative destiny, additionally from a preparation crash. Thomas Dressen of Germany disjoined the two shoulders after a fall at an Austrian race on Saturday. 

This season, around 20 men and 30 ladies have been sidelined by wounds in ski races, the greater part of which were a torn A.C.L. or on the other hand another knee injury. 

While trying to assess and restrict wounds, F.I.S., the worldwide skiing alliance, as of late declared a working gathering of sports and clinical specialists. The gathering is a piece of the F.I.S. Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project, in participation with the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, began in 2006. 

"We have a progressing issue, and we as a whole must be straightforward that this gathering will likewise not locate a brilliant answer that will tackle all the issues," said Atle Skaardal of Norway, a previous World Cup ladies' race executive who currently takes a shot at the injury observation venture. 

"The most significant part is to go into the problem areas of the injury reasons and afterward take it from that side," Skaardal said. "We need to go in with open eyes, check everything and do methodical philosophy examinations and ways to deal with the issues." 

Factual proof gave by F.I.S's. Injury Surveillance System shows that wounds, time-misfortune wounds and serious wounds all expanded last season in the wake of having diminished over past seasons. Time-misfortune wounds were in the scope of 30 racers dependent on an example of 100 competitors. There are in excess of 300 ski racers on visit. 

"To accomplish zero resilience with wounds is troublesome," Skaardal said. "It resembles requesting to forestall genuine mishaps in rush hour gridlock." 

The equal monster slalom position — in which skiers race next to each other on courses expected to be equivalent — has delivered critical knee wounds. Alexis Pinturault, a ski racer from France, tweeted his objection, calling for F.I.S. to make changes. 

His post read, to some extent: "Since when in sport karma is a higher priority than execution? Furthermore, how perilous is the organization. However, most importantly @fisalpine when will the expressions of the competitors be considered?" 

Blustery Johnson, a racer from the United States, said there should have been more noteworthy participation among countries.