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The US & nbsp; Ted Ligety posted tonight a post hard on & nbsp; Facebook on the fall of & nbsp; Matthias Mayer accusing not too subtly FIS to use athletes as cannon fodder to test the 'air bag introduced recently.
Sunday 20 December 2015 2 minutes reading time
Ligety & egrave; was very critical in these days to many of the ways that the FIS manage races of the White Circus: in Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re pretty much alone, as athlete representative, raised the question that the first to go in the first round Giant Face de Bellevarde were on the dark while others who went most & ugrave; back were the sun. Then he criticized the parallel giant tomorrow in Alta Badia asking, once again unheard, to place safety nets between the two tracks so that the two athletes who fall are unlikely to impact on one & rsquo; another. Now the harsh tirade against the & rsquo; airbags.
& Ldquo; I feel terrible for Matthias Mayer, I wish him all the best - writes Ted -. It '' really unfortunate that skiers are used as crash test dummies to test an airbag system not tried before. To my knowledge & egrave; It was the first fall with the real 'airbags and caused the worst back injury in pi & ugrave; a decade of World Cup. It seems the 'airbag has acted as a fulcrum for the back causing fractures. We should make inquiries & rdquo ;.
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