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Kostelic may be out a year with injury
Posted: Sunday December 19, 1999 02:43 PM
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) -- Croatian ski sensation Janica Kostelic underwent successful surgery to reconstruct badly torn knee ligaments, doctors said Sunday, but her injury was worse than first feared. The 17-year-old Croatian, who was injured during a training fall in preparation for the weekend's World Cup downhill double-header, underwent a six-hour operation at a hospital in Basel Saturday and had begun a mild form of rehabilitation therapy following surgery, said a hospital press statement. The teenager had torn all of her ligaments in her left knee -- the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments and the medial collateral ligament -- and ruptured the meniscus cartilage as well, the statement said. Kostelic, the surprise leader of the women's World Cup overall standings, will remain hospitalized for the next 12-14 days, doctors said, and will be out of action for the next six months, possibly a year. Kostelic hurt hr knee after soaring off an artificial jump on the newly-reconfigured Corviglia course, landing precariously on her right leg before being thrown onto her back and into the safety netting.
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