(AFP) – 2 days ago
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — Swiss veteran Didier Cuche still expects to compete at next month's Winter Games in Vancouver despite fracturing his right thumb in a fall in Friday's giant slalom at Kranjska Gora.
Cuche will have surgery on Saturday in Zurich but expects to make a swift recovery to keep his Olympic dream alive.
"The Olympics are still on. We will see how the operation goes and how (the injury) can be protected," said the super-G world champion, who last week produced a double downhill-super G triumph on the Streif at Kitzbuehel to take his season win tally to four and career total to 13.
Cuche, 35, will be operated on by Dr Walter Frey at Zurich's Schulthess clinic after he suffered the injury in clipping the third last gate "pretty hard".
The veteran has already been racing through the pain barrier in recent weeks after he fractured a rib six weeks ago at Val d'Isere, a problem which took three weeks to clear up.
