Alison dos Santos suffers knee injury and will have to undergo surgery

Current world champion in the 400 meters hurdles, Alison dos Santos, suffered a meniscus injury in her right knee while training in São Paulo. According to the profile of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) on Twitter, this Wednesday (8), the 22-year-old athlete will have to undergo surgery. There is still no date for the procedure, nor prediction of return to the slopes. Alison dos Santos suffered an injury to the meniscus in her right knee. Our world champion will need surgery. Strength, Piu! You are Ice Cream 🥶 and you will come back even stronger 💪🏾 pic.twitter.com/tUQTb3UZBV — Time Brasil (@timebrasil) February 8, 2023 “This week, I ended up feeling my knee, but it was necessary to treat it, ‘okay’ on how it works life. [Quero] Thanks to everyone who is with me right now, sending messages, good energies, doing their best to comfort me a little in this situation that, as you know, the news is a blow. We’re planning everything right, let’s make everything cute. When I have more news about the treatment, I’ll bring it to you. Thanks to COB that is saving a lot of life. Say I’m fine, let’s go to work, have the surgery, treat it and life goes on. Keep focused. Nothing changes. We have our goals for this year and for next year as well,” said Alison, in a video released to the press by the COB press office. Bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics (Japan), Alison won, last Thursday (2) , the 2022 Brazil Olympic Award for the best male athlete. Alison’s calendar for 2023 includes, in addition to the Diamond League, the World Cup in Budapest (Hungary), from August 19 to 27, and the Pan American Games in Santiago (Chile), from October 20 to November 5. No next year, the barreirista is one of the favorites to win a medal at the Olympics in Paris (France).


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