Overview
- Italy’s federation said Bassino had surgery in Milan on Thursday following a training fall the previous day in Val Senales.
- The left tibial plateau fracture near the knee was reduced and repaired, and surgeons reinserted the medial collateral ligament, according to FISI.
- Rehabilitation begins immediately, with a projected return to skis in no fewer than four to six months, placing her earliest on-snow date after the Olympics.
- She had been preparing for Saturday’s season-opening giant slalom in Sölden and will miss the start of the World Cup campaign.
- The setback compounds Italy’s challenges after Federica Brignone’s April double leg fracture and ACL tear, with Brignone seen as unlikely to race before January.