Schwabish Halli (AP) – Ski Racers Thomas Dresen The first pace events of the coming season and possibly the upcoming World Cup will miss large parts of the winter.
he will be in the race lake louis (Canada) and Beaver Creek (America) will not start on the last weekend in November and the first weekend in December, the 27-year-old said while dressing German Ski Association (dsv) In Schwabish Halli on Wednesday. in the race Val Garden There are no issues. till Olympic Games In peking He doesn’t currently think so in the coming February.
Dresen Last February, he had his first damaged right knee operation since the World Cup in Cortina d’Ampezzo, during which free pieces of cartilage were removed and the cartilage was smoothed out. “I plan to start skiing in early December. No‘At the end of November we will have tests that will show how strong I am and how stress-resistant the knee is. Only after passing this will I get a chance to go for skiing. Then I would do a calm, consistent build-up, ”said the athlete sc mittenwald.
If he’s in the beginning, he’ll want to be in the front too. How long it will take till then cannot be said. “In any case, the goal is to compete in the race, but when and where is still in the stars,” said Dresen Looking forward to the new season.
The winner of the great Kitzbühel downhill run from 2018 almost completely missed the last World Cup winter due to a hip operation. in the world cup Italy He started after just a few days of training in the snow and finished 18th in the downhill.
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