Olympic ski slopestyle champion Joss Christensen landed awkwardly and felt a pop in his right knee while training three weeks ago.
“The first thought in my mind was, it’s over,” Christensen recalled in a phone interview Thursday.
It’s not.
Christensen, one of the biggest surprises of the Sochi Winter Games, suffered a torn ACL and meniscus, plus an MCL sprain in Mammoth Mountain, Calif., on May 10. He underwent surgery May 18 and had another knee scope last Friday due to relieve excess bleeding.
He expects to be off snow for the next five and a half months.