MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Flora Tabanelli was submitted on Friday morning, at the clinic La Madonnina in Milan, to a magnetic resonance and to a thorough visit by the medical committee of Fisi, chaired by Dr. Andrea Panzeri. “The consult – informs a note of the Federation – has evidenced, for the 17-year-old freeski champion, portacolori of the Army Sports Centre, a injury to the front cruciate ligament of the right knee. Considering the importance of the season, Flora will start a one-month rehabilitation phase at J/Medical in Turin: the rehabilitation phase will be fundamental for any choice will be taken later. If, according to the answers that the knee will provide to doctors after the first rehabilitation phase, it will be possible to proceed with a more specific and targeted rehabilitation to take part in the Olympics, without any risk and in maximum safety for the athlete and having well present his young age and his career prospects, will be pursued this path. Otherwise, an intervention will be planned.”.
The Tabanelli, had fallen badly in the landing phase after a jump during the training in Stubai. The 17-year-old Emilian, world champion and big-air World Cup holder, had immediately highlighted a distractive trauma to the right knee.
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