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Incredible accident on the Stelvio glacier: the coach of the Slovenian team of fast disciplines Peter Pen fell into a crevasse.
Friday 3 August 2018 3 minutes reading time
The Slovenian athlete, who was sixth in the Val d'Isère World Cup downhill on December 16th 2000, was doing a training session with his team when he missed the ground under his feet and crashed for 17 meters luckily coming out almost unharmed, only with some superficial wound.
"I'm fine, but I admit I'm a bit 'shocked - said the 46 year-old native of Maribor - With Aleš Gorza, we stayed on the track, about two meters away from each other, no hole was visible around us nowhere, I just took a step back and I fell right up to the shoulders, immediately after I fell deeper into the crevasse, the rescue operation started immediately, I was constantly on the radio because I Of course, the feeling was not pleasant, fortunately we are all well, so we will continue our work, "concluded Pen, satisfied with the giant laps between 5 and 8am. It was the last training of Slovenian skiers before leaving for Chile.
"I've never tried anything like that, it happened in a moment, he watched a tour of Boštjan Kline, he took another step, then he disappeared in a second, first to the waist and then completely. finished, so to speak "commented Aleš Gorza, also a former Slovenian national and now coach of Tilen Debelak, who joined the Pen team during training, the Slovenian team, further reduced by the withdrawals of Rok Perko and Andrej Šporn, and composed by Martin Cater, Miho Hrobat, Boštjan Kline and Klemen Koši will remain in Italy until Sunday and then leave for the Chilean town of La Parva. They have found difficulties with the high temperatures instead the boys of the technical races Štefan Hadalin and an Kranjec, the last week, on the Swiss glacier in Saas-Fee, they were able to take home only two out of five training sessions, and to the delight of coach Klemen Bergant they will find a real winter in Argentina.
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