Olympic Champion Ledecka Pulls Out Of Snowboarding Worlds

Prague, March 1 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Mar, 2021 ) :Ester Ledecka, the 2018 Olympic champion in alpine skiing's super-G and snowboarding's parallel giant slalom, said Monday she was pulling out of the world snowboarding championships over an unspecified injury.

The 25-year-old Czech was due to start competing at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships at Rogla, Slovenia in a parallel giant slalom on Monday.

She said she would not take part in Tuesday's parallel slalom either.

"I was getting ready for the races and looking forward, but I can't even complete my stretching, let alone carry the snowboard over my head single-handed," Ledecka said.

"So I have decided I have nothing to do at the start," she added in a statement published by her agent Sport Invest.

"Together with my team, we will work hard so I could race at the skiing World Cup Final in Lenzerheide" on March 17-21, Ledecka said.

A crossover star, Ledecka won the season-opening snowboarding parallel giant slalom at Cortina d'Ampezzo in December.

That was her first snowboard World Cup race for 11 months.