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VIENNA - Downhill world champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway will likely miss the entire ski season after tearing his Achilles tendon while playing soccer.The Norwegian ski federation said that Svindal sustained the injury in Austria on Saturday — eight days before the mens World Cup season starts with a giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier in Soelden, Austria.The season also includes the world championships in Vail and Beaver Creek in February, where Svindal was set to defend his downhill title.I was out for a little run with the rest of the team, Svindal wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. We ended the session playing around with a ball. Just holding it up in the air between us. Suddenly I felt something snap in my leg and I knew right away that something was wrong. Achilles.Svindal said he was brought to a hospital in Innsbruck and underwent surgery shortly after.A real injury and extremely bad timing just as the season is about to start, the Norwegian said. Nobody can say 100 per cent sure how long the recovery will take, but Im ready for the weeks that are coming.Svindal added he planned to stay in Austria for a while before travelling to Oslo.He is probably out of the whole season, spokesman Claes-Tommy Herland of the Norwegian ski federation told The Associated Press in a phone call.Svindal clinched the overall title in 2006 and 2009, and last season became the closest challenger of Marcel Hirscher on the Austrians way to a third straight overall title. The Norwegian won the crystal globes for leading the seasons downhill and super-G rankings, raising his number of World Cup discipline titles to nine.Its a giant loss for next season, Hirscher told the Austria Press Agency, adding he had texted Svindal his best wishes. Aksel is a true hero of our sports. He leaves behind a huge gap and his spirit will be missed.Svindal isnt unfamiliar to staging a comeback from injury after missing almost the entire 2007-08 season following a serious crash in training on the Birds of Prey downhill course in Beaver Creek. Svindal landed in the safety nettings and broke bones in his face and suffered a laceration to his groin and abdominal area.Svindal returned and won his second overall title the next season, including gold in the super-combined at the 2009 world championship in Val dIsere.The 31-year-old Norwegian has won 11 medals at major championships, including three at the Vancouver Olympics, where he won gold in super-G, silver in downhill and bronze in GS. Barkevious Mingo Jersey . The turf is scheduled to give way to actual grass that is bright green, so we dont have to complain any more—we just have to wait a few years. Instead, do feel free to complain if the roof is closed for any reason other than to allow a game to be played. 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Before that, Rousey needed a total 23 minutes and 26 seconds to take care of her last eight opponents - and one of those fights lasted 10 minutes and 58 seconds.MONTREAL -- Canadas largest private sector union plans to hold an organizing meeting Wednesday in an attempt to begin the process of representing major junior hockey players from around the country. Unifor was created a year ago through the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions. Unifor president Jerry Dias said Monday that the unionization of junior hockey is a long time coming. "Its really slid under the radar screen because thats how people like it," said Dias. "The facts are the owners are doing quite well and this is a subject and this is a discussion that nobody wants to have." The development comes over a year after a failed attempt to unionize junior hockey players in Nova Scotia. A would-be union withdrew its certification application with the provincial government in November 2012. Dias said Unifor was approached by the failed union in June for help. There are 660 teams in the Canadian Hockey League, which is the umbrella organization for the Ontario Hockey League, Western Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.dddddddddddd A CHL spokesman said president David Branch wasnt immediately available for comment. Dias said Wednesdays meeting starts the process of creating a board of directors and a legal entity. He invoked several reasons to unionize players, including pay, restrictions on university scholarships and health insurance. "The key reason were involved in this is its the right thing to do," he said. "And frankly were not going to get scared off by a bunch of Bay St. lawyers. Were not going to let lawyers determine the future of the kids. Theyre going to make their own decisions. 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