Anna Segal ready to soar on Sochi’s mountain despite the slopestyle skier carrying injuries

ANNA Segal's camp insist the world champion slopestyle skier will be ready for competition despite injuries.

IT’S A mysterious case of which injured knee but regardless of where her problems lie, Anna Segal's camp insist the world champion slopestyle skier will be ready for competition at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday.

Segal undertook a medical over the weekend and was passed fit for the discipline which will be making its Olympic debut.

It was a date put back from the first slated medical on February 2.

The 27-year-old, one of the event favourites before injury concerns started to emerge about a year ago, told reporters when she arrived in Sochi that the problem wasn't with the same knee that she hurt at a World Cup event in Switzerland early last year.

News_Image_File: A multiple-exposure shot of Segal practising at the Extreme Park on Rosa Khutor Mountain.

“It was a separate injury,” she said. “Last year was my left knee and this year I tweaked my right knee a little bit.” But her coach Tori Beattie muddied the menisci waters on Sunday when she said it was in fact the left knee after all.

“That's the one we've been managing,” Beattie said.

“It's healed up well this last year. It was just a flair up of the left knee.

“It has been blown up out of proportion a bit. She's doing fine, injury-wise.” A big event performer, Segal took out the world championship in 2011 and is a regular podium finisher in pro tour events.

News_Image_File: Segal gets some hang time in the presence of a giant ski bunny Russian wedding doll.

She has trained four days in Sochi and will do another session on the course before the event.

“We did all the hard training earlier in the year so we just wanted to come into this well-rested and calm and let all the other competitors compete and compete and work themselves up,” Beattie said.

“We are relying on her big event experience. In some places it's a fairly young field so we feel that is a big strength of hers. Especially on big jumps because this is a big course.

“The result will be what it will be but if she puts it down it's a strong run.” While complaints have come in thick and fast from the snowboarders about the slopestyle course, skiers have almost laughed them off.

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Beattie said the two-planked brigade were actually quite excited.

“It's scaled back to an awesome course. As we saw with the snowboarders ... the level is just incredible of what people can do on this.

“The top people will shine on this course.” Defending Canadian world champion Kaya Turski and American World Cup champion Keri Herman will be amongst the favourites. AAP gc/jb