Goggia Likely Out For Season After Training Crash

Sofia Goggia broke her leg during training yesterday, Monday, February 5, 2024, on the Casola Nera run in the Ponte di Legno Tonale ski area in Italy. La Regina della Velocita. She caught her leg in a gate on a right turn sending the ski racer flying. Goggia was on her third training run when the accident happened. The Italian ski association ‘FISI’ later confirmed that the ski racer had fractured her right leg.

Goggia was successfully operated on at the La Madonnina Clinic in Milan by Dr. Andrea Panzeri, President of the FISI Medical Commission, in collaboration with Dr. Riccardo Accept, head of the Traumatology Unit of the IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, for the reduction of a displaced multifragmentary articular fracture of the right tibial pilon. The operation was a perfect success, a plate with seven screws was applied to the athlete and he will observe a rest and unloading period of approximately 40 days, to then begin the most active part of the physiotherapy, which will in any case begin from from the next few days.

“Another injury that interrupts my pursuit of a new downhill World Cup – declared the unfortunate champion from Bergamo before entering the operating room -, but this time too I will be able to get back up”.

“It's always sad when an athlete gets hurt – said President Flavio Roda -. Sofia, in particular, was in a very positive moment: strong in speed and also improved in giant slalom. It's a real shame, this injury. We hope it will be resolved in the best possible way."