The death of the Italian skill
Usually, until December or January, after a series of calm, twisted knees, ACL, and worse than that, the discussion about safety is in Ski in the World Cup It becomes an annual theme.
Not this season.
The death of Italian skier Matteo Franzoso This week, after the before the season’s training in Chile, fears have returned to how to reduce risk in high -speed sport more than a month before the race started.
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The discussion also comes less than five months ago Milan Cortina Olympics.
Franzoso, 25, has become the third rising Italian skipper who dies in less than a year.
Matilde LorenziAnd that was nineteen years old, died of her wounds after a crash last October. Then in March, Marco de Glei Oumini, 18, died while testing the regional children’s race. After a month, Margot SimmondWho was 18 years old, he died in a training accident.
In 2017, skiing on the French slopes David PuigeonHe died a previous medal in the world championship, after training in Canada. It was 35.
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“How many tragic losses will we have to try before we finally open the debate about safety, especially during training?” The veteran French slope Adrian Tho wrote on Instagram.
“It is time to stop … … you cannot go out to ski and then not return home,” added Lucrezia Lorenzi, Matilde’s older sister and a competitor herself.
Lindsie von was training in Chile
The Italian Winter Sports Federation said that Franzoso crashed through two layers of safety fence in a path in Los Angeles Barva and criticized in another type of fence, which includes 6 to 7 meters (yard) outside the session. He was transferred by a helicopter to a hospital in Santiago, but he could not survive from the shock of the skull and the consequent swelling in his brain. He died two days later – a day before his twenty -sixth birthday.
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The La Parva cycle has been widely used by skiers in the World Cup for years. Lindsie von and the American ski team were training there a week before Franzoso’s crash And many other national teams were there this month.
A teammate shaking flying home
Italian veteran Christophe Enerhofer completed a round before Franzoso’s crash and heard about the accident. Then Innerhofer saw the crash site with his eyes when he returned on a chair and looked at his fallen colleague.
“I was not matte, when I saw where I fell, as they were applying help in emergency situations, with you on the other side of the fence, I lost my mind because I was afraid of the severity of the situation.”
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He said that the 40 -year -old Innerhofer has been shaken to the point that it abandoned the training camp and went to Italy: “These are the most difficult days that I have ever passed as athlete.”
He calls for custom training courses
Franzoso’s death has sparked a discussion whether the International Ski and Skipping Federation in Switzerland should take over a greater role in ensuring safety in the southern hemisphere.
Ushuaia in Argentina and Coronet Peak in New Zealand are also common destinations for skating in the World Cup in August and September.
The Italian Federation held an urgent meeting on Friday and called for the establishment of training courses for national teams.
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“The proposal can include two sessions in the southern hemisphere for summer training, and some training courses in Europe and North America for autumn and winter training,” said the Italian Federation, known as Fisi.
Fisi added that the training courses must contain Aman, B and C networks just like the courses used in the World Cup races.
“In the coming weeks, Fis will condense with stakeholders, always with one guidance principle: the welfare and safety of athletes must come first,” FIS said in a statement on Friday.
Air bags and underwear resistant clothes
Starting this season, all the World Cup skiers will be asked to wear Featory airbag systems Under their race for slope races and Super-G; and Resistant underwear For all events.
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Aerobic bags, which are briefly enlarged when activated by an advanced algorithm can feel when the skirt loses control, as an optional safety device for years.
Cutting underwear protects against increasing injuries from advanced ski edges. For example, the underwear may have helped prevent damage to severe pieces and nerves for the right calf from the Norwegian foreground Alexander Amaudat Keld During a terrible crash in January 2024. Keld has gone out since the fall but hopes to return this season.
“Such moments bring in the sharp focus on the deep risks that are an inseparable part of our sport,” said Fis. “The risks inherent in skiing on the Alps cannot be eliminated, but – by listening, by increasing awareness and filtering the dialogue that leads to collective action – we can reduce risks.”
Michaella Chevrin crashed in Courtina
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Franzoso was from the coastal city of Genoa, but he moved to the mountains near Cister to continue his skiing career. His funeral will take place on Tuesday in Cestere – where skiing was competed in the 2006 Turin Olympics.
For Milan Cortina games in February, you will hold men’s skiing in Burmeo and will hold women’s skiing in Courtina de Ambizo.
both of them Stelvio cycle in Bormio The Olympia Delle Tofane course in Courtina has been a site for many prominent incidents in recent years. Michaella Chevrin Nets Cortina hit high speed in 2024 and prominent French Cyprien Sarrazin A surgery is needed to drain brain bleeding after being coordinated in the air and fell strongly on Stelvio last season.
The World Cup for this season opens to Rettenbach Glacier in Sölden, Austria, at the end of October.
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