It was just over eight months ago, more precisely on January 23, that Lisa Hörnblad crashed properly in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The 26-year-old managed to get up by his own machine but had to be transported down the hill in a sled.
Once at the hospital in Milan, it was determined that everything but the posterior cruciate ligament in her left knee had ruptured.
- It was really a serious injury.
Almost everything was broken and, above all, all the cartilage was gone, says Hörnblad to SVT Sport.
That she would stand on a pair of skis again was certainly not a given.
- I think the doctor is still a little shocked that I even ski.
I really didn't think it would happen this fast.
The messages I received at the beginning meant that I did not even expect that I would stand on a pair of skis again, then it was about getting a knee back that you can live with.
"It feels completely unreal"
In mid-September, she made a comeback at a national team camp in Oslo.
- It feels completely unreal that it went by so quickly at the end.
I was so very, very disabled at the beginning, it feels so surreal to be on a ski slope nine months later.
It's like you missed something.
How did it feel then?
- Good.
I still can't walk fully but it's beyond all expectations, I thought I would be in so much more pain considering I have no cartilage in my knee.
Has had a knee injury before
Luckily, she's used to it.
In 2018, she seriously injured her right knee.
- I can have even more pain in the other knee and it was still four years since I injured it.
So I'm kind of used to it.
What does the goal look like in the future then?
- I have a goal of going to Lake Louise at the end of November, but I won't beat myself up if I don't make it.
The doctors think it's a little early.
That's the goal, but I will absolutely not be disappointed if I don't make it, it's the knee that gets to decide.
Watch the nasty crash from January here:
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Lisa Hörnblad out for the rest of the season.
Photo: Viaplay/Bildbyrån