For the serious overall World Cup winner Federica Brignone, participation in the Olympic Winter Games in her home country becomes a race against time. Many months of uncertainty lie in front of her, as she now illustrates herself.
Skir racer Federica Brignone is faced with serious injuries to the Olympic Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo after her fall.
A return to the skis is “impossible in the next four or five months,” said the 34-year-old in Milan on Monday. The games take place from February 6th to 22nd, 2026.
Olympics? Months of uncertainty are imminent
“I don’t know when I can ski again, and the doctors don’t know either. Everything depends on my rehabilitation and my healing process,” said the overall World Cup winner.
Brignone is one of the largest Italian medal hopes at the games in their homeland. So far she has won three Olympic medals, but never got gold.
“I can’t say that I don’t think of the games, but I’m concentrating on something completely different at the moment,” she said.
Brignone seriously injured after falling
The ski star fell heavily at the Italian championships in early April. In doing so, she suffered a multi -fragment fracture of the shin leg head and the fabric’s head in the left knee, and the operation also found a tear of the front cruciate ligament.
Brignone had dominated the World Cup in the past season and secured the large crystal ball with a total of ten successes and the victory in the departure and giant slalom rating. At the World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, she won gold in the giant slalom-her second World Cup title-and silver in the Super-G.