The downhill slope softened by the sun let the Finnish jumper down. The anterior cruciate ligament of the knee tore, and the coil also took a hit. The final quality of the injuries will be determined in Finland in further studies.
Hill jumper Eetu Nousiainen, 26, the transition or rest period starts next week in the worst possible way. On Thursday, the Kuopio native fell badly on Planica’s famous flying hill and was taken from the hill to hospital.
– After examinations and magnetic resonance images, I was told here at the hospital that the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee had torn from its joints and the coil had also torn. I’m not sure I got 100% of everything they said. I didn’t hit my head in that situation, but the air went to the yard. You could have ended the season in some other way, but I guess a season like this demanded such an end, Nousiainen sighed to Urheilu.
He described the crash itself as follows:
– A normal descent, but then the ski left from under me.
The need for follow-up treatment of the injuries will not be resolved until next week in Finland.
Face with blood meat
– In the morning, my whole body will definitely be sore and my face will bleed, but only in Finland will I know what to do with this. So let’s do new tests, take new MRIs and see an orthopedist.
The head coach Lauri Hakola told about the events and their causes like this:
– An anterior cruciate ligament injury can also be a matter of the worsening of an old injury, because Eetu has recently said that there has been pain in the knee, Hakola said.
According to the head coach, Nousiainen’s jump was completely controlled and nothing happened during the aerial flight that could have predicted the continuation.
– Even after coming down, Eetu slid for a while just like usual, until he left under the skis. The descent slope is frankly in a rather poor condition and is a very big reason for what happened.
Planica has had a sunny and warm spring winter, which has softened the downhill slope very badly.
The previous dramatic Finnish fall on the Planica airfield was seen in the spring of 2005, when the World Cup victory had already been secured Janne Ahonen fell violently after a jump that was too long, with the result that the coccyx was broken.
The Planica flying hill races (HS240) close the men’s World Cup season. On Friday at 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 10:30 a.m., men will jump an individual race, on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. the team jump.
The Women’s World Cup ends with the normal mountain race currently underway in Planica.
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