Brian Joubert withdrew from GPF due to injury

… eww so many bad skating news for me this week. Brian injured his foot in training during a triple Lutz attempt. He cut his right ankle and suffered a rupture at his tendon. Fortunately his bone isn’t affected that much. Brian suffered pretty the same injury three years ago. He went under a successful surgery last night (Thursday) and hopes to recover soon.

Today’s L’Equipe (Daily French Sports Newspaper) confirmed that Brian is definitely out for the French Nationals in Marseille in mid December. Anyway he plans to take part at the Euros in Tallinn in mid January before take off to Vancouver in February.

I scanned the article for you and hope Brian will take his time to recover and  get ready again to fight for this gold medal at the Olympics.

Liebers out for Nebelhorn Trophy?

German skater Peter Liebers may miss the Olympics 2010 due to injury. The 21 year old soldier from Berlin broke his metatarsus during an army march in the forest.

“I fell over a root and now I have to wait if I will be able to compete in Oberstdorf.”

Peter missed the direct qualification for the Olympics at this year Worlds in Los Angeles just because of less than a half point after the Short Program. If he won’t be fit enough to fight for his Olympic ticket in Oberstdorf his Berlin training colleague Clemens Brummer or Stefan Lindenmann will attend the Nebelhorn Trophy, as only one German skater is allowed to compete.

Too bad for Peter but anyway I would love to see Stefan back on track