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A televised confrontation between former skiers to try to change something in the white circus system.
Friday 8 November 2019 4 minutes reading time
This is what ServusTV proposed, during the usual weekly appointment of "Sport und Talk" at the Hangar-7 of Salzburg airport.
In front of Atle Skaardal, who from this season left the role of chief race director of the Tarvisian women's circuit Peter Gerdol, remaining in FIS as technical consultant, Fritz Strobl and Kilian Albrecht.
The topic at the center of the discussion, incidentally, is the composition of the World Cup calendars, both in terms of number of competitions (this year extra-large, with 44 appointments for men and 41 for women), and for the formats and the disparity between disciplines.
"It doesn't make sense to cancel the races, since no athlete will do them all. The best contend between 22 and 25 a season - the words of Skaardal in defense of the choices of the FIS, harshly criticized by the current manager of Mikaela Shiffrin, the former Austrian slalomist Kilian Albrecht (who in the second part of the career competed for Bulgaria, ed). "It would be folly to be able to participate in all the disciplines, the same Mikaela will have to sacrifice something because of fatigue since the calendar is too thick. And at the same time, a specialist has too few races available ".
According to the Olympic downhill champion in Salt Lake City 2002, Fritz Strobl, the white circus "is a giant machine and bringing everyone in the same direction is difficult, also because the athletes want to run and need a balance. My thought is to eliminate the combined and redistribute the other races, just think that Austria itself is struggling to field four athletes in this specialty in a great event ... ".
Skaardal, however, points out that “one third of the competitions take place in central Europe, that is between Austria, Switzerland and Italy; since it is a World Cup, we also need to go to the United States and Asia, it is important for everyone given the resulting market. Are you asking me for such frequent injuries? I think that if an athlete doesn't feel ready or in shape, he has to raise a hand and give up, especially downhill where the greatest dangers take place ".
This does not seem to be a viable solution ...
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