Maxime Dufour-Lapointe ready for Olympic season despite 2 surgeries
Moguls skier suffered knee and hip pain this season, stemming from a torn labrum
Despite spending the month in and out of hospital, moguls skier Maxime Dufour-Lapointe plans to join Olympian sisters Justine and Chloe next season, claiming she feels good as new.
Maxime, the eldest sister at 28, shared pictures of herself recovering from not one, but two surgeries.
The moguls skier, one of few women on the circuit who has a back full manoeuvre in her bag of tricks, experienced pain in her hip and knee this past season. She underwent surgery in early May to fix the source of that pain, which ended up being a torn labrum (soft tissue surrounding the hip socket).
A week later, Dufour-Lapointe was at the hospital again for cyst removal. She came out of surgery smiling, writing to fans, "Don't worry I'm all good, and finally done with my "mechanical repairs" now!"
The surgeries aren't expected to affect Dufour-Lapointe's season. She will be off her skis for a month, and will then join the rest of Canada's moguls team who are training in British Columbia.