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Mathilde Gremaud needs to regain her confidence over the next few days.
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Mathilde Gremaud is traveling to the Freestyle World Championships in the Engadine with a few question marks due to an injury that has only just subsided.
The 25-year-old Olympic and world slopestyle champion has been slowed down by an unspecified injury in recent weeks.
"I will definitely be at the start. The question is what level I'm at," said Gremaud on Monday in St. Moritz. The Fribourg native did not specify what kind of injury it was. She took part in her last competition at the Laax Open in January and then decided not to make the trip to North America.
The mishap happened in February while free skiing with friends. She has now been able to train in the park again for two days, explained Gremaud, who is one of Switzerland's biggest medal hopes at her home World Championships. "I wasn't in any pain, but I still need to find my confidence again."
Gremaud's team-mate Sarah Höfflin is also racing against time. The 2018 Olympic slopestyle champion injured her foot in Aspen at the beginning of February and made her comeback in big air at the World Cup in Tignes last Thursday. "I'd say I'm at 70 percent," said the 30-year-old from Geneva on Monday.
The slopestyle qualification is scheduled for Thursday, the final on Sunday. Gremaud and Höfflin still have just under a week left for the Big Air.
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