by Muleski » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:06 pm
It's a bad humeral break. Big bone. Takes a long time to mend. Hardware should come out. Many different opinions on how long this might sideline her. Then you match it up with the women's WC speed calendar, and it could be a problem. She has had a number of breaks in the last three years. Kind of odd. Not everybody is on board with her new lean, thinner, toned body.....let alone her focus on her "branding." How serious was her summer...coming back, again, from injury.
Interesting to see Lara Gut getting even stronger over the summer, by comparison. Meanwhile LV has her dog and a camera in the gym, or by the pool. Just saying that a number of people question it.
Fine to be planning the next career. Hard to do it while trying to dominate a segment of this sport. Not sure how this will turn, but I don't disagree with HH. It might be over, or she might not be the same.
In conversation with a couple of medical folks quite close to this, it sounds like there are a lot of fingers being pointed, and such. A lot of questions, second guessing and already no consensus on how to manage this. If they let this heal as it should, the likely time back is at the FIS WC's in St. Moritz. There are just two speed series on the calendar after that. Do you just the timeline? Do you blow off the year, get back to serious work and come back for one final big year in an Olympic cycle? That sounds pretty drastic.
We shall see. Bad, and odd break. It's absolutely not a simple situation.