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Goggia, who leads the downhill World Cup standings, lost her
balance in the third section of the treacherous course and
appeared to twist a knee before getting up and slowly skiing
down the piste.
Tournament organisers later said the 29-year-old had sprained
her left knee.
"Sofia Goggia's fall in today's Super-G resulted in a sprained
left knee, with a partial cruciate ligament injury already
operated in 2013, a small fracture of the fibula and a muscular
tendon injury," a statement read
https://twitter.com/fisalpine/status/
1485312236386148362.
"Sofia will start her rehabilitation with the aim to be at the
Olympics."
Goggia has won five of the six World Cup downhills this season
and was hoping to secure a double in Cortina d'Ampezzo after
prevailing in Saturday's downhill at the Italian resort.
The women's super-G at the Olympics is scheduled for Feb. 11,
four days before the downhill.
Goggia also lost the lead in the super-G World Cup rankings to
another Italian, Federica Brignone, who took fourth place.
She ended up 0.32 seconds behind Curtoni, who clocked a time of
one minute 20.98 seconds to beat Austrian Tamara Tippler by 0.09
and Swiss Michelle Gisin by 0.24.
Brignone has 377 points in the super-G rankings to Curtoni's 348
and Goggia's 332.
American Mikaela Shiffrin, who last won a World Cup super-G in
2020, took 16th place to extend her overall World Cup lead by 15
points over Czech Petra Vlhova.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot, additional reporting by Manasi
Pathak; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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