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Alberto Tomba, Italy’s No. 1 skier, will...

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Alberto Tomba, Italy’s No. 1 skier, will be sidelined for at least one month with a broken collarbone, doctors said in Bologna, Italy.

Tomba, 22, broke his left collarbone in a bad spill in a World Cup super-giant slalom in Val d’Isere, France, Sunday.

Giorgio Fontanesi, a doctor at the Rizzoli clinic where Tomba was hospitalized, said Tomba will not need surgery as originally feared.

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Tomba’s personal trainer, Giorgio D’Urbano, said that the skier could return for World Cup slaloms Jan. 14 in Bad Wiessee, West Germany, or Jan. 21 in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

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