World champion ski jumper Alex Loutitt has unearthed a few silver linings in her rehabilitation from a devastating knee injury.

The 21-year-old Calgarian, who was the first Canadian to win a world title in the sport in 2023 when she was victorious in women's large hill, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in September's Olympic test event in Predazzo, Italy.

So Loutitt will not jump there at the Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy, in February.

"It'll be a year before I compete," Loutitt said from Salzburg, Austria, where she's rehabilitating at Red Bull's Athlete Performance Center. "It is unrealistic to think anything else."

Loutitt's leg crumpled when she landed a jump in Sept. 19 qualifying for the large hill in Predazzo. Jumpers land on plastic-coated turf i

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