Czech skier Tereza Nova, who competed for her nation in 4 Olympic races in 2022, was positioned in a medically induced coma after she wanted mind surgical procedure on Saturday following a downhill crash in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Nova was in her remaining coaching session on Friday when she crashed on the Kandahar course.
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The Czech ski federation stated that Nova required surgical procedure to scale back mind swelling, and she or he “will remain in the medically induced coma as long as deemed necessary by the medical team.”
Tereza Nova (CZE) competes within the girls’s alpine downhill mixed throughout the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Video games at Yanqing Alpine Snowboarding Centre. (Andrew P. Scott-USA Immediately Sports activities)
“We are all thinking of Tereza and wish her a speedy recovery and lots of strength,” the ski federation stated on Saturday.
Nova, 26, participated in 4 races throughout the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Her finest end was 14th place throughout the girls’s alpine mixed occasion. She additionally competed in blended staff parallel, the place she completed 14th as properly, girls’s downhill (twenty eighth) and girls’s Tremendous-G (thirty third).
Nova has additionally competed in World Cup races since 2019, the place she made her debut in November, although she didn’t qualify for the second spherical of the slalom occasion in Levi.
Tereza Nova (CZE) competes within the alpine skiing-womens alpine mixed occasion throughout the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Video games at Yanqing Alpine Snowboarding Centre. (Harrison Hill-USA Immediately Sports activities)
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Nova’s worldwide debut got here in December 2014, and she or he would compete within the Junior World Championships in Val di Fassa 5 years later.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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