Jason Brown was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right fibula on Dec. 16, kept off the ice for the rest of December and goes into next week’s U.S. Championships with 80 percent strength in that right leg.
Not ideal for the only Olympian in the men’s field as he tries to make the two-man world championships team.
“I’m going to do the best I can do with what I’ve got right now,” Brown said Thursday. “I am in the healing process. I am getting stronger.”
Brown, 22, was the breakout U.S. men’s skater of 2014 and 2015.