The Belgian national snowboard team is currently preparing it
coming winter season for the Stubai glacier in Austria. Smits broke his left shin at the knee joint during a fall during training. The double slopestyle world champion was repatriated to Belgium, where he was yesterday by professor Bellemans
was operated on.
The operation went well and without any complication, Snow Sports Flanders reports. However, Smits again awaits a long rehabilitation of 9 months. In March 2018, he underwent surgery for cartilage injuries in his right knee. With that he was out for just as long.
Smits sounds combative: “It certainly sucks to injure me again, the past few weeks I felt really good on my snowboard and I was looking forward to this winter season. But the operation went well and the doctor says that I am 100 percent again. I will do everything I can to come back as strong as possible. “
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