CHAMONIX, France (AP) — Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada is out for the rest of the season after injuring his left knee and breaking his fibula Saturday in a crash during a World Cup downhill in the French Alps.
Osborne-Paradis lost his balance after catching a ski and flew into the safety net along the Verte Course in Chamonix.
The 26-year-old racer was put in a sled and airlifted from the slope by helicopter. He was taken to a Geneva hospital, where tests revealed he also had torn an anterior cruciate ligament that will require surgery.
"It's a confirmed ACL tear," said Dr. Stephen French, medical co-director for Alpine Canada Alpin. "Plans are being made for him to return to Canada to be assessed by the surgical team. Obviously, this means he will miss the remainder of the season."
Osborne-Paradis is the third men's World Cup skier to be injured in a crash this month. Mario Scheiber broke his right shoulder blade and fractured his sinuses during training this week, while Hans Grugger of Austria needed emergency brain surgery after crashing in Kitzbuehel last week and is still hospitalized.
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