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Kilian Albrecht unleashes the controversy: "The international federation would have had the economic opportunity to help the reorganization between Are and Kvitfjell".
Saturday 7 March 2020 3 minutes reading time
A cancellation that agreed 17 of the 18 federations involved in the FIS council, with FISI alone to defend the finals of Cortina.
If the words of the great heads of house Austria and Switzerland have been clear in this sense, with the danger Coronavirus (in their opinion) too concrete to compete in Italy, there are those who go against the current and it is Kilian Albrecht, the historical manager of Mikaela Shiffrin.
Of course, the former slalomist would have liked seven races available to see the American champion play the crystal ball with more chances, while recovering 154 points to Federica Brignone in just three tests of Are will be more complicated. Understandable, therefore, the exit on a social level of Albrecht, if we think then that a total of 7 of the last 10 races on the calendar have been canceled, including the two of Ofterschwang where Shiffrin, is practically certain news, would have already returned to the game.
“As always, nobody asked for the athletes' opinion - Albrecht's words on twitter - I bet most of them wanted to compete, and FIS would have had the economic possibility to help Sweden and Norway in the reorganization of the finals. Further proof of mismanagement and total despair. "
At home FIS gave a clearly very different save Markus Waldner, chief race director of the men's World Cup: "There was no other choice, with 17 nations out of 18 who had given a negative opinion on the trip to Italy and the times were so tight for organize an event like the finals ". Finals that, among other things, by regulation, could not be moved by date and location. Although in an exceptional situation such as this related to Coronavirus, the exception would have been.
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