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Kostelic season likely over after knee woes
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February 13, 2012, Monday
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OVERALL World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic could miss the rest of the Alpine ski season after injuring his knee in the men's super-combined race yesterday.
The Croatian, who clinched the super-combined title with his third victory in the discipline, needed help to walk away from the course after hurting his right knee during the slalom portion of the event.
"During the second run he felt a shock in his right knee," Croatian ski federation director Vedran Pavlek told reporters at the Russian ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana, which will host the Alpine events at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
"He was able to finish the race but when he took off his ski boots he felt pain in his right knee. He had strong pain when he tried to walk," Pavlek said. "We decided to take him to a local hospital for an MRI."
Kostelic's father blamed the course at Rosa Khutor for his son's injury.
"It was a very aggressive course with lots of ice turns and big jumps, it's very easy to get injured on a course like this," Ante Kostelic said.
The 32-year-old Kostelic, who won the overall World Cup title by a huge margin last year, has had half-a-dozen knee injuries in his career.
"Ivica told his father that (yesterday's injury) reminded him of the problem he had while winning a slalom race in Italy in December 2003, when he felt sudden pain in the same knee," Pavlek added.
Yesterday's victory increased his lead in the race for the overall title to 70 points over Swiss Beat Feuz, who won Saturday's downhill here and finished second in the combined, 1.16 seconds behind Kostelic.
Third place went to France's Thomas Mermillod-Blond, 1.77 off the pace.
Feuz sympathized with Kostelic, saying: "I sincerely hope his injury is not too bad. It would be a great shame for our fight to end in these circumstances.
"In any case, there was no beating him today; he skied an extraordinary slalom run."
In Soldeu-Grandvalira, Andorra, Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom yesterday, while overall leader Lindsey Vonn finished more than a second behind.
Worley led after the opening run and held off a strong challenge by Slovenia's Tina Maze to claim her seventh career victory in 2 minutes, 1.80 seconds.
Maze chipped into Vonn's commanding point total with a second-place finish 0.16 seconds back, while defending World Cup champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany rounded out the podium places, 0.75 seconds back.
American Vonn, still on course for her fourth championship, will have to wait for her 51st career win after finishing eighth, 1.36 seconds off the pace.
The Croatian, who clinched the super-combined title with his third victory in the discipline, needed help to walk away from the course after hurting his right knee during the slalom portion of the event.
"During the second run he felt a shock in his right knee," Croatian ski federation director Vedran Pavlek told reporters at the Russian ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana, which will host the Alpine events at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
"He was able to finish the race but when he took off his ski boots he felt pain in his right knee. He had strong pain when he tried to walk," Pavlek said. "We decided to take him to a local hospital for an MRI."
Kostelic's father blamed the course at Rosa Khutor for his son's injury.
"It was a very aggressive course with lots of ice turns and big jumps, it's very easy to get injured on a course like this," Ante Kostelic said.
The 32-year-old Kostelic, who won the overall World Cup title by a huge margin last year, has had half-a-dozen knee injuries in his career.
"Ivica told his father that (yesterday's injury) reminded him of the problem he had while winning a slalom race in Italy in December 2003, when he felt sudden pain in the same knee," Pavlek added.
Yesterday's victory increased his lead in the race for the overall title to 70 points over Swiss Beat Feuz, who won Saturday's downhill here and finished second in the combined, 1.16 seconds behind Kostelic.
Third place went to France's Thomas Mermillod-Blond, 1.77 off the pace.
Feuz sympathized with Kostelic, saying: "I sincerely hope his injury is not too bad. It would be a great shame for our fight to end in these circumstances.
"In any case, there was no beating him today; he skied an extraordinary slalom run."
In Soldeu-Grandvalira, Andorra, Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom yesterday, while overall leader Lindsey Vonn finished more than a second behind.
Worley led after the opening run and held off a strong challenge by Slovenia's Tina Maze to claim her seventh career victory in 2 minutes, 1.80 seconds.
Maze chipped into Vonn's commanding point total with a second-place finish 0.16 seconds back, while defending World Cup champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany rounded out the podium places, 0.75 seconds back.
American Vonn, still on course for her fourth championship, will have to wait for her 51st career win after finishing eighth, 1.36 seconds off the pace.
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