Marta Bassino updates on her condition
Directly from the Gran Risa where the men’Alta Badia World Cup men’s giant slalom is being staged, Marta Bassino updated on her condition after the serious injury suffered in training last October. “In general I am fine, the knee has reacted great, the physiotherapists and doctors are all very happy – admitted the Azzurra to the microphones of Sky Sports -. Clearly with ups and downs, with days a bit’ alternating, however, it is all a very gradual path and to be dosed”.
“I am happy to be here on both legs: I left the crutches completely a few days ago, however, everything is going very well – added the Cuneo native – Clearly it is a special situation to be here as a spectator: watching the race is not like doing it. I don’t know how to talk about recovery time, actually it’s very difficult because when they operated they told me 3-6 months, so it means everything and nothing. I try to stay in the present and have weekly goals to get to make the knee heal”.
In Val Gardena, the 29-year-old from Borgo San Dalmazzo was able to admire the men’s ski team that is performing well in the World Cup: “I also got to be at the finish line for the SuperG when Giovanni Franzoni made the podium on the Saslong. Our male sprinters are doing crazy results, it is a positive sign and they deserve it. It was nice to breathe that’air there also when you do team results: it”s just a nice emotion, an added value, something extra”.
Bassino was the victim of a fall during training in Val Senales. The Piedmontese champion was tackling a flat part of the Leo Gurschler slope when she fell victim to a slip that resulted in a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau in her left leg.
L’Azzurra underwent surgery at La Madonnina Clinic in Milan by Fisi Medical Commission President Andrea Panzeri in collaboration with doctors Riccardo Accetta and Gabriele Thiebat. Azzurra had the fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of the left leg reduced and synthesized, with reinsertion of the medial collateral ligament.
