Super-g Champion To Miss Winter Olympics

Defending super-G champion Lara Gut-Behrami will miss nan 2026 Winter Olympics successful Italy aft suffering a season-ending knee injury.

Swiss Ski said nan 34-year-old will person room aft crashing during training successful Copper Mountain successful Colorado.

She ruptured a cruciate ligament and tore a medial ligament and a meniscus successful her near knee.

Gut-Behrami, who has won 48 World Cup golds crossed 3 disciplines, planned to discontinue aft nan 2025-26 season.

"My extremity is to afloat retrieve from this wounded and to scope my afloat capacity again. Only past will I cognize what nan early holds for me," she said.

"We person precocious knowledgeable melodramatic events successful our athletics - fatal accidents involving young athletes.

"I judge that a knee injury, arsenic analyzable arsenic it whitethorn be, cannot beryllium considered a tragedy."

The Milano Cortina Games will tally from 6-22 February.

Italians Matteo Franzoso, 25, and Matilde Lorenz,, external 19, person died successful nan past 18 months from injuries suffered successful training crashes.