"Austria's 2022 Olympic slalom silver medallist Katharina Liensberger will miss the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics after suffering a serious knee injury in a training crash. The Austrian Ski Association said Liensberger would have surgery on Friday after medical examinations revealed a fracture of the tibial plateau, a torn meniscus and a medial collateral ligament injury in her right knee. Austrian media said the 28-year-old slalom specialist's season was over after the crash in St Michael a month before the Olympics start in Italy."
"Liensberger won a team gold and slalom silver in Beijing and was slalom world champion in 2021. She won a slalom bronze at last year's championships on home snow in Saalbach. At Cortina, she would have been up against American great Mikaela Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup skier of all time. She has won the last six World Cup slaloms and five this season."
"Liensberger has been added to a list of top women's skiers to have suffered serious injuries in the run-up to the Olympics. Three Swiss Olympic champions Michelle Gisin, Lara Gut-Behrami and Corinne Suter have been sidelined in training incidents with the first two ruled out of the Games. After the death of Italian skier Matteo Franzoso in a training accident in Chile in September, concerns were raised, primarily about how to limit risks in the high-speed sport."
Katharina Liensberger sustained a severe right-knee injury in a training crash and will miss the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. Medical checks identified a tibial plateau fracture, a torn meniscus and a medial collateral ligament injury, and surgery was scheduled. Austrian outlets reported the 28-year-old slalom specialist's season is over after the St Michael crash a month before the Games. Liensberger is an Olympic team gold medallist, 2022 slalom silver medallist and 2021 slalom world champion, with recent championship bronze in Saalbach. The injury joins other pre-Olympic training incidents and has renewed concerns about safety in high-speed alpine skiing.
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