(AP) — Downhill skier Tereza Nova has been woken from a medical coma nearly four weeks after crashing in training for a World Cup race, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation said on Thursday.
“After a severe brain injury, she was gradually awakened from artificial sleep and will be transported from the trauma clinic in Germany back to the Czech Republic today,” the FIS said in an update from the Czech team.
The 27-year-old Nova crashed on Jan. 24 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in a training run for a downhill race the next day. CONTINUE