Comeback in the slalom

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Christian Hirschbühl has undergone five operations lasting up to eight hours over the past three years. Not only once was the 34-year-old slalom specialist closer to ending his career than returning. He told the "Krone" how his form is looking ahead to his comeback in Levi and what his goals for the season are.

At last! Exactly 1036 days after Christian Hirschbühl had such a disastrous incident at the World Cup slalom in Wengen (Sz) and suffered a complicated and lengthy cartilage injury in addition to a fracture to his right ankle, the man from Lauterach will celebrate his race comeback next Sunday in Levi (Finland).