Austrian youngster Thomas Morgenstern injured himself during the physical training last week. A computed tomography showed yesterday that he tore his intraarticular ligament in his right ankle joint. According to the doctors the double Olympic champion from Torino will be forced to take a break for about six to eight weeks. “An injury is of course always a bad thing, but at least I have a lot of other things to do at the moment” said the 19-year-old who now wants to focus on finishing his school and taking the final exams.
The FIS Nordic World Cup Organizers’ Meeting took place in Rust (GER) last weekend. There Representatives of over thirty organizers of World-Cup, Grand-Prix and Continental-Cup events met to share experiences and dicuss with various companies and the media. At this meeting also an innovation for the upcoming season was presented. Starting with the 2006/07 season a “Man of the Day” will receive an extra prize money of € 2000 (sponsored by “Manner”) at every World-Cup event. This award will go to the best ranked athlete of the competition who is not among the Top 15 in the overall World-Cup ranking.