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“If you schedule three speed races in three days on such a selective slope as in Wengen, you shouldn’t be surprised if there are so many serious injuries,” added Hermann Maier’s former coach and saw the FIS as complicit.
FIS President Johan Eliasch dismissed the blame that the association was partly responsible for the many injuries with its tight schedule. In his opinion, athletes can decide for themselves whether they want to start or skip a race due to the stress.
Höflehner warns of consequences
Höflehner mightn’t understand these statements at all. “For a ski racer, winning an overall ranking is more important than success in an individual race. And if a skier wants to win the downhill or super-G crystal ball, he cannot afford to take breaks from competition,” the former ski racer explained Athletes’ point of view.
From the point of view of the racing director of the ski company Atomic, the many falls might have dire consequences for the future of ski racing: “If parents see more and more violent falls on TV broadcasts of ski races, at some point they will stop their children from going to ski clubs and to the ski races,” the Austrian reacted in alarm.
Horrible fall on the finish slope: Kilde crashes violently into the safety fence
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