It was the latest serious head injury in a season when one of the top men’s downhill racers, Cyprien Sarrazin, underwent surgery after crashing in Italy, Italian junior champion Matilde Lorenzi died from injuries suffered in training and US star Mikaela Shiffrin said she had struggled with PTSD symptoms after a serious crash in November.
“After the brain swelling subsided and the bleeding visibly subsided, the patient was stable enough for us to slowly wake her up again after consulting with our neurosurgery colleagues,” said Markus Gruber, who helped treat Nova at a clinic near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Downhill skier Tereza Nova has been woken from a medical coma nearly four weeks after crashing in training for a World Cup race, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation said on Thursday.
“After a severe brain injury, she was gradually awakened from artificial sleep and will be transported from the trauma clinic in Germany back to the Czech Republic today,” the FIS said in an update from the Czech team.
The 27-year-old Nova crashed on 24 January at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in a training run for a downhill race the next day.
