Alpine skiing: Season over for Italy's world champion Paris after ACL tear


FILE PHOTO: Alpine Skiing - FIS Ski World Cup - Men's Alpine Combined - Downhill - Wengen, Switzerland - January 18, 2020 Italy's Dominik Paris in action REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

(Reuters) - Italy's reigning super-G world champion Dominik Paris will be out for the rest of the World Cup season after suffering a knee injury in training for the Kitzbuehel speed races on Tuesday.

The governing FIS said Paris, a four times winner in the Austrian resort, had torn the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee with a micro-fracture of the fibula head.

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