Marta Bassino’s first words after injury

Here are the first words, reported by the FISI website, after the fracture, in training in Val Senales, to the tibial plateau of the left leg that will almost certainly make the 29-year-old from Borgo San Dalmazzo skip the entire alpine skiing season, which begins Saturday with the women’s giant in Soelden.

“I was on a flat section at the bottom of the Leo Gurschler slope and was heading toward the junction leading to the small road, where the ski lifts had been smoothing the previous day and the snow was beautiful. Unfortunately, a few snow clumps formed and when I got to a long one I slipped, caught my left ski and as a result I completely pivoted, my knee pivoted and I heard cracking.”

“I intend to face this new test to my full strength: in my career I have been very lucky and never had any serious injuries until yesterday, this is a new challenge. I have already started with physiotherapy to keep my knee mobile enough, for a whole month I will not be able to rest my leg. Now I only think about healing, a knee eventually gets fixed, unfortunately it is an accident of the road that can happen in a sportsman’s career.”

Marta Bassino was born Feb. 27 in Cuneo, Italy. She made her World Cup debut on March 16, 2014, in the Lenzerheide Giant of the Finals, as junior world champion in the specialty. She competed in 225 races in the Circo Rosa, winning seven of them, six in giant and one in downhill, finishing 23 other times on the podium. She won the giant slalom cup in 2021 and in the same year the parallel world title in Cortina d’Ampezzo. She also won the super-G rainbow title in 2023 and, also at the World Championships, bronze in the team event in 2019.