Lara Gut-Behrami has confirmed to her doctor that she suffered a serious injury during speed training in Copper Mountain in the USA on Thursday. This was reported by "Le Nouvelliste".
21.11.2025, 16:00
21.11.2025, 16:07
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The Valais newspaper was in contact with Olivier Siegrist. This is the doctor who operated on Gut-Behrami in 2017 after she tore her cruciate ligament at the World Championships in St. Moritz. Siegrist told the "Nouvelliste" that the athlete phoned him on Friday afternoon Swiss time to ask for an appointment.
"She called me and told me that she wanted to see me because I know her knee," said Siegrist, who said that Gut-Behrami had torn the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her left knee. The skier from Ticino also suffered "a meniscus injury", Siegrist continued. Swiss-Ski was unable to confirm these injuries when asked by Keystone-SDA.
Siegrist also told the "Nouvelliste" that Gut-Behrami would land in Milan from North America on Sunday evening. It will therefore be Monday or even Wednesday before the consultation takes place. "I also explained to her that I like to see her, but that I no longer work. That's why I will see her together with my successor at the Hôpital de la Tour in Geneva, Julien Billières, who will be the surgeon in charge."
In a telephone conversation with the ski racer, whom he has known since the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, he experienced a rather fatalistic Lara Gut-Behrami, Siegrist told the newspaper. "She is of course very disappointed, but she knows that an injury is a risk that all skiers are exposed to. She is not complaining. She is an athlete who has both feet firmly on the ground," says the now retired surgeon.
Siegrist did not comment on whether this injury was the end of Gut-Behrami's career. He only said: "I feel sorry for her because she said that this season would be the last of her career, a season that she had started well with a podium finish in Sölden."
