CALGARY - Marielle Thompson has Plans A, B, C and pretty well the whole alphabet for her return to ski cross.

The 2014 Olympic gold medallist and 2022 silver medallist is juggling her desire to race again, and wanting to qualify for February's Olympic Games, and ensuring her knee is race-ready to be successful.

Thompson tore her lateral collateral ligament off her right fibula during a Feb. 28 World Cup in Gudauri, Georgia.

So less than a year out from the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy, Thompson required surgery for that injury, plus a few other problems in that knee.

"Personally, I really want to get back into racing before going to the Games," said the 33-year-old from Whistler, B.C.

"It's part of qualifying as well, so I must, but I just want to feel comfortable in

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