{"id":3266,"date":"2015-12-01T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.foilingweek.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:11:10","slug":"franck-cammas-recovering-after-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/franck-cammas-recovering-after-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Franck Cammas recovering after accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0americascup.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3267\" src=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950.jpg\" alt=\"m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950\" width=\"836\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950.jpg 836w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Franck Cammas, the skipper of Groupama Team France, is recovering following surgery on his leg after a training accident.<\/p>\n<p>Cammas was two-boat training with his team in foiling GC32 catamarans when he lost his balance and fell overboard. His leg was struck by the rudder. The speed of the boat, combined with the fine edge of the foil, resulted in a double break of the fibia-tibia in his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>He was transported to shore by RIB and then to hospital by helicopter. Specialists performed surgery on Monday night and on Tuesday the news came that the surgery was a success. Franck has a long road ahead of physical rehabilitation, but he has been assured by doctors he will not lose the use of his foot.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Cammas was already asking about his team, anxious that they should resume training. He also expressed gratitude for all of the well-wishes sent his way.<\/p>\n<p>While the injury isn\u2019t expected to significantly impact the Groupama Team France campaign for the America\u2019s Cup, it does put an end to Franck\u2019s bid for a spot at the 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0americascup.com Franck Cammas, the skipper of Groupama Team France, is recovering following surgery on his leg after a training accident. Cammas was two-boat training with his team in foiling GC32 catamarans when he lost his balance and fell overboard. His leg was struck by the rudder. The speed of the boat, combined with the fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,54,55,540],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-foiling","tag-americas-cup","tag-franck-cammas","tag-groupama","tag-team-france"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/m1153_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_14489783821950.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}