World champion Marion Rolland unable to defend title

ByReuters

Updated 21/01/2015 at 11:19 GMT

French skier Marion Rolland will not defend her downhill title at next month's world championships in Beaver Creek after tearing knee ligaments, the French Skiing Federation said on Wednesday.

Marion Rolland

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Rolland, 32, crashed in a World Cup Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Monday.

She suffered a similar injury in training in September 2013 and missed the entire 2014 season and Sochi Winter Olympics as a result.

Rolland has also injured her left knee twice in her career, her most spectacular crash taking place at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic downhill in Whistler when her knee snapped immediately after leaving the starting gate.

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