Mico Ahonen’s anterior cruciate ligament and coil broke in his knee during a long jump on Lahti’s normal hill. The prognosis for recovery after surgery is 9–12 months.
Having represented Finland in the World Cup competitions in Kuusamo and Lahti last season Mico Ahonen, 22, the hill season had a really dark ending on Tuesday, March 26. Ahonen’s fifth and last planned training jump from the normal hill in his hometown Lahti went too long with dire consequences.
– It had been calm weather, but for the last jump there was a contrary air flow. Mico’s left knee already disintegrated from the impact of the descent. It was about the last practice of the entire season, and that’s what it really turned out to be, Mico Ahonen’s father Janne Ahonen told Urheilu on Monday.
Coached by Mico Aho Ossi-Pekka Valta and Jouni Kaitainen.
The diagnosis of the second knee hill jumper from the magnetic images was the same as the A national team jumper Eetu Nousiainen, who crashed on the airfield of Planica during the final weekend of the World Cup. In Mico Ahosen’s left knee, both the anterior cruciate ligament and the spiral were completely destroyed, which requires surgical treatment. The jumper will be operated on in Mehiläinen, Lahti, in a week and a half; scalpel flashes orthopedic surgeon SpongeBob Virrankari on.
Not behind the wheel of a speeding car
– The recovery forecast is 9–12 months, which means that Micolta has also been patted, so to speak, in his second sport, i.e. acceleration driving, at least in the early season, father-Ahonen says.
On March 26, Mico Ahonen, who has jumped three World Youth Championships and made his World Cup debut in Kuusamo last November, was jumping in Lahti.
– I was at work and didn’t know anything until Mico posted a picture and message from the hospital after getting his stuff and phone from his friends. The first information from the X-ray images was significantly more hopeful than what was then obtained from the magnetic images. Fortunately, young men have enough courage and patience to rehabilitate, Janne Ahonen laughed.
His jumping career at the international level alone lasted about a quarter of a century without breaking the anterior cruciate ligament even once.
– The coil and the side tie broke, but the front tourniquets, oddly enough, never once.
Corrected story at 19:35: Ossi-Pekka Valta will coach Mico Ahonen, not Pasi Ahonen.