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After Norwegian King Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (31) flew exhausted into the safety fence at the finish Z of the Lauberhorn descent on Saturday, the worst had to be feared for a few hours. But on Sunday morning, the Norwegian association confirmed what Blick had written: Kilde escaped without broken bones.
However, the 31-year-old suffered a deep cut and the two-time downhill World Cup winner also dislocated his shoulder. After the operation in a Bernese hospital, it is unclear when the friend of ski queen Mikaela Shiffrin (28) can return to the ski circus.
“That’s unhealthy!”
The former coach of Hermann Maier (51), Christian Höflehner, has a very special bond with Kilde. As head of racing at Atomic, he has been equipping the Norwegian with skis, bindings and boots for years.
In New Year’s Eve week, Höflehner lost his Austrian Atomic figurehead Marco Schwarz (28) due to a torn cruciate ligament. After taking off from Kilde, Styrian sets his sights on leading the international ski association. “What the FIS expects from athletes with its racing program is unhealthy. If you plan three speed races in three days on such a selective course as in Wengen, you should not be surprised if there are so many serious injuries.”
The FIS responds
Höflehner does not accept the objection of FIS chairman Johan Eliasch (61) that an athlete can withdraw from a race at any time: “For a ski racer, winning a general classification is more important than success in an individual race. And if a Kilde wants to win the downhill or super-G crystal ball, he can’t afford to take breaks from the competition. Höflehner adds: “If parents see more and more violent falls on TV broadcasts of ski races, they will at some point ban their children from going to ski clubs and ski races.”
Unlike its president, FIS race director Markus Waldner seems to have recognized this problem: “In the future we will not move races that had to be canceled somewhere at another World Cup race. At least not while I’m the race director. Wengen has finally shown that only five to six athletes can perform such a program; for the rest it was nail biting. And I never want to see that again.”
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
