Injured in training

Has Hirscher suffered a serious injury in training?

Marcel Hirscher suffered a serious injury in training.(Bild: GEPA)

Ski hammer for Marcel Hirscher! He tore his cruciate ligament during training on the Reiteralm and has to end his season prematurely.

Two slalom starts, two no-shows: For Marcel Hirscher, the two gate runs in Levi (did not qualify for the second run) and Gurgl (out in the first run) did not go to plan. At first glance, Hirscher himself was relatively relaxed about his second slalom zero in a row, but the 35-year-old was very upset: "No chance!" was his verdict at the finish. "I'm out of place here. I'm just a passenger!" As in Levi, he made a mistake with his tuning. "I used to have a bible that I wrote myself. With all the facts and figures about the races. Now I have two pages in a notebook. We're on the brink of zero hour."

Hirscher's plan would have been to skip Beaver Creek and concentrate on the races in Val d'Isère (December 14/15) ...

"What remains is the love of skiing"
Instead, everything turns out differently: the season is over for Marcel Hirscher! The eight-time overall World Cup winner suffered a serious injury during training on the Reiteralm. "Last run of the season. What remains is the love of skiing. Many thanks to everyone for their support," Hirscher himself writes in a video on Instagram, in which he takes a few giant slalom turns, gets hit on the knee in a compression and screams loudly.

The diagnosis: torn cruciate ligament in his left knee with a slight injury to the outer capsule. He underwent successful surgery in Graz on Monday evening, as his ski brand Van Deer-Red Bull announced on Tuesday morning. "Cruciate ligament gone, project over!", explained Hirscher.

The super-GAU has happened! Hirscher's season is already over - even before it has really taken off. The 35-year-old from Salzburg will therefore also miss the World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. How bitter ...