Top athletes who will miss the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[heywoodu 16,460]

 

Every time we see the same thing, logically when you're talking about many hundreds of athletes: there's always a few main contenders who get injured, sick or otherwise miss out on the Olympics. I thought it'd be interesting to make a collection of them here, and see just who we are missing out on. 

 

Obviously there's no special rules, but personally I'd go for athletes who actually miss out on a somewhat realistic medal chance (where "but he didn't really have a chance" is a different kind of discussion) and who miss out due to things like injury. Someone like Ole Einar Bjoerndalen or Michel Mulder, who in theory would have a medal chance but simply weren't good enough to qualify, doesn't really count. 

[heywoodu 16,460]

I'll start out with what I've got in mind at the moment. There's a lot of torn ACL's in there, feel free to correct me if that's not technically correct since I'm quick to count a knee injury as a torn ACL  

 

Alpine skiing
Marie-Michele Gagnon (CAN) - Torn ACL at the Lake Louise World Cup

Travis Ganong (USA) - Torn ACL at the Bormio World Cup

Jacqueline Wiles (USA) - Torn ACL (?) + double leg fracture at the Garmisch World Cup

Erik Guay (CAN) - Back injury

Felix Neureuther (GER) - Knee injury

Steven Nyman (USA) - ?

 

Freestyle skiing

Kelly Sildaru (EST) - Torn ACL

Lisa Zimmermann (GER) - Torn ACL

Heidi Zacher (GER) - Torn ACL

Georgia Simmerling (CAN) - ?

 

Ski jumping

Severin Freund (GER) - Torn ACL

 

Biathlon

Gabriela Koukalova (CZE) - Leg injury?

 

Snowboarding

Sabine Schöffmann (AUT) - Fractured fibula + torn ligaments at the Bansko World Cup

Edited February 6, 2018 by heywoodu

[AmericanHero40 243]

Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Drew Doughty , Patrick Kane 

[heywoodu 16,460]

6 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Drew Doughty , Patrick Kane 

Well yeah, we could name the entire NHL roster, but yeah 

 

 

[AmericanHero40 243]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Well yeah, we could name the entire NHL roster, but yeah 

 

 

 

still not over it, very sad, also scary precedent for basketball for nba players, and probably means will really never see mlb players in baseball, even in the l.a olympics 

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

Benoit Valentin (Freestyle skiing, FRA)

 

Rupture des ligaments croisés (Torn ACL ???), Aspen world cup finals

Edited February 6, 2018 by De_Gambassi

[stamura84 18]

italian important absence are :
Elena Fanchini,alpine ski (cancer),
Elena Curtoni,alpine ski
Samuel Costa,nordic combined

[Pavlo 149]

so sad for Wiles - i like her very much...seen her crash live on Eurosport...when she could easily avoid it just letting it go...she decided to stay in the race with such a high cost :/

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb heywoodu:

I'll start out with what I've got in mind at the moment. There's a lot of torn ACL's in there, feel free to correct me if that's not technically correct since I'm quick to count a knee injury as a torn ACL  

 

Alpine skiing
Marie-Michele Gagnon (CAN) - Torn ACL at the Lake Louise World Cup

Travis Ganong (USA) - Torn ACL at the Bormio World Cup

Jacqueline Wiles (USA) - Torn ACL (?) + double leg fracture at the Garmisch World Cup

Erik Guay (CAN) - Back injury

Felix Neureuther (GER) - Knee injury

Steven Nyman (USA) - ?

 

Freestyle skiing

Kelly Sildaru (EST) - Torn ACL

Lisa Zimmermann (GER) - Torn ACL

Heidi Zacher (GER) - Torn ACL

Georgia Simmerling (CAN) - ?

 

Ski jumping

Severin Freund (GER) - Torn ACL

 

Biathlon

Gabriela Koukalova (CZE) - Leg injury?

 

Snowboarding

Sabine Schöffmann (AUT) - Fractured fibula + torn ligaments at the Bansko World Cup

Alpine skiing:

Stefan Luitz (GER) - Torn ACL

 

Figure skating:

Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) - Back injury

 

Snowboarding:

Torah Bright (AUS) - Wrist inury
Don't know if she counts, she wasn't able to qualify due to a wrist injury.

[heywoodu 16,460]

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Alpine skiing:

Stefan Luitz (GER) - Torn ACL

 

Figure skating:

Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) - Back injury

 

Snowboarding:

Torah Bright (AUS) - Wrist inury
Don't know if she counts, she wasn't able to qualify due to a wrist injury.

Ah, how could I forget Luitz. 

 

And sure she counts, it's nothing formal or official, no problem.