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The Aosta Valley has exposed herself in a decisive way after what happened to the Swedish national team. Alexis: "In this way each of us will lose races: we need a protocol like in other sports". The case of the Italian jumping team.
Friday 20 November 2020 5 minutes reading time
All with Federica Brignone. The athletes protagonists in the World Cup, always too little listened to by the leaders of the FIS home in each of their battles, lined up alongside the blue captain who, on Thursday evening, sent a clear message after what happened to the colleagues of the Swedish national team , unable to compete in Levi after the positivity of Christian Thoma. “Negative tests are not enough for the athletes, just one positive technician is enough and everything is over. Does it seem right? Because we have different rules than other sports ”.
From Ester Ledecka to Ilka Stuhec, from Linus Strasser to many others, it is precisely those who risk seeing months of work vanish in an amen, as in the case of Anna Swenn-Larsson and her companions (but there will be many others, at this rate ), to try to change something. Alexis Pinturault himself, fresh from a training period in Cervinia, before returning to the competition in the parallel of Lech / Zuers, did not send them to talk about the story by his colleagues at Ski Chrono.
"As Federica said, sooner or later we will all be affected - the words of the French champion - In other sports, such as football, cycling itself, only those who test positive are quarantined, the other members of the team must be tested immediately and submit a negative result, and it goes on.
Am I worried? Well, we all should be; if something does not change, with a well-defined protocol, I myself will lose at least one stage of the Cup. It is not a possibility, it is a certainty ”.
And again, Pinturault analyzes a second aspect: “Many athletes have developed antibodies, like myself or Kilde, some downhill skiers of our national team. If a case should emerge in the team, we could not run even we who are practically certain not to contract the virus. We are the only sport to operate in this way, we need to change because the cup rankings will be based on episodes of this type. Let's take the example of Anna Swenn-Larsson: among the best in the world in slalom, now she will already have two races less and the season compromised ”.
In recent days, another case has emerged that concerns directly an Italian national team: although it has never been formalized by the federation itself, in the men's jumping group the positivity of a technician on the eve of the away match in Wisla, for the 'opening of the World Cup, led the FISI itself not to let any athlete compete on the Polish springboard. In that situation, a federation decided directly, even before the local health authorities which, in any case, always take precedence according to the various laws in force in the individual countries. If the FIS proposed a protocol in force inside the bubble, however, things could change. Even if it seems already too late ...
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