Another race? Ledecká is on Sunday’s starting list

Czech skier Ester Ledecká in the finish area shortly after falling in the World Cup downhill in Crans Montana, Switzerland.

Marco Tacca, ČTK / AP

“I am, or I will be, okay. We have another fighter for bad news,” Ledecká said in the evening after a series of examinations. She vigorously indicated that she would start in the super-G on Sunday at noon. She did not want to discuss her fall. “I don’t want to talk about sports injuries. As my grandfather would say: It’s part of the sport,” she said.

According to the evening statement of the Sport Invest agency, which represents Ledecká, it will make a final decision during Sunday morning. However, it appears in the starting list, it should start on the track with the number 15. In December, Ledecká won the super-G in Val d’Isere and scored her second victory in the World Cup.

After Saturday’s fall, an ambulance took Ledecka to a hospital in Zion for suturing a severed lip and other examinations. The twenty-five-year-old Czech was still in a good mood. “I’ll call Ondra (Bank) and Bode Miller, practice driving on the nets. I fluffed the nets, but I couldn’t bite them …” she joked in a statement to the media. She came across former skiers who rode on the edge of risk and managed critical situations.

“She is a bit broken and has a severed lip, otherwise it should not be anything serious,” coach Tomáš Bank told ČT shortly after the race.

Ledecká probably paid for the fact that she drove to the critical passage faster than in previous races. “She probably had a much higher speed in the gate where she fell than in previous days. The trail she had seen was no longer enough.