Alpine star Federica Brignone published a picture of her seriously injured leg eleven days after her bad fall. In the photo on Instagram you can see a huge long, sewn surgical wound, which runs past the knee from the left thigh to the lower shin.
“I broke my record of stitches, but I could have waived the last 42,” wrote the 34-year-old overall World Cup winner from Italy.
The giant slalom world champion had fallen heavily on April 3 at the Italian championships in Val di Fassa. In doing so, she had contracted a multiple fracture of the shin bone plateaus and the fibula head as well as a cruciate ligament tear. After her operation, she was released from the Milan Hospital last Tuesday. In the meantime, the Italian has started her rehabilitation program. “I am already working on being 100 % again,” she wrote.
Brignone: Can go again first
However, it is unclear when that will be. Everything depends on how physiotherapy runs and how your body reacts. “Step by step. First of all, I remember to go back and then everything else arises,” she said. Standing on skis will be impossible in the next four to five months, even if everything goes well.
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This makes it a race for Brignone to take part in the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. These begin on February 6, 2026.