It’s unbelievable that this fall ended so calmly!
In the course of the girls’s downhill coaching on the World Ski Championships in Courchevel/Méribel (France, February 6 to 19), US ski star Isabella Wright (25) triggered a second of shock on Tuesday.
After round 40 seconds on the demanding piste, the Tremendous-G specialist misplaced management of her skis in a protracted right-hand bend, fell and flew into the security fences.
Right here Isabella Wright slipped into the security fences at nearly 80 issues
Then shock seconds: Wright solely stayed on the runway, hardly shifting. Her teammates round US famous person Mikaela Shiffrin (27) additionally caught their breath within the end space.
Right here Isabella Wright (above left) flies into the security fence
Solely after a protracted, nearly 20 seconds later did the primary helpers arrive, who helped the American up subsequent to the slope.
Wright lies on the runway for a protracted second, then is handled by medical first responders
Then the all clear! The ski ace didn’t damage himself badly within the violent fall from a flight and was even capable of ski down the slope afterwards. As soon as within the end space, Wright acquired emergency medical therapy and was taken to a hospital in Méribel as a precaution.
As the primary lady ever Lindsey Vonn races down the Streif – at night time!
Within the afternoon, the US star reported from the hospital by way of Instagram and posted her two bandaged ft from the hospital mattress in a narrative.
Ouch: Isabella Wright posted these bandaged ft on Instagram
She wrote: “I’m going to name out my internal Hermann Maier and attempt to get well as a lot as I can for the remainder of the week right here in Méribel. Fingers crossed.”
In 1998, the Austrian ski legend Hermann Maier (50) fell in a equally violent method in the course of the Olympic downhill run in Nagano (Japan).
“I’m not doing so nicely,” he stated shortly after the autumn, however just a few days later the “Herminator” received double gold in Nagano, his solely gold medals at Winter Video games for the four-time total World Cup winner.
The ladies’s downhill will happen in Méribel on Saturday (11 a.m.).
