American Alpine ski race Breezy Johnson will miss the start of the Women’s Alpine Ski World Cup this weekend in Austria due to a knee injury.
Breezy Johnson, who was second in all three descents for the World Cup this season, said she sought medical help for a cut and bruised knee after a fall in training this week.
“I feel great and ready to start, but my medical team thinks it will be safer to wait until Cortina d’Ampezzo”, wrote the American wrote on Instagram from Austria.
Breezy Johnson will miss Saturday’s downhill and Sunday’s super-giant slalom in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria. The same competitions will be held in the remaining two weekends in January in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany).
At the Beijing Winter Games, her main goal was a downhill medal on February 15. Breezy Johnson, who turns 26 next week, is looking for her first World Cup victory after seven podiums in the last 13 months.
Breanna Noble “Breezy” Johnson competes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. In her first World Cup season in 2017, she finished eighteenth in the downhill standings. At the World Cup finals in March at Aspen, Breezy Johnson crashed in downhill and suffered a tibial plateau fracture to her left leg. She quickly recovered from this injury and in the 2018 season she finished eleventh in the downhill standings and competed in the Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in the downhill and fourteenth in the super-G.
