Safety concerns on the eve of the World Cup after the Italian skipper death Winter Olympic Games News

It is usually the matter until December or January and after a series of knees, twisted knees, ACL, and worse than the discussion of safety in the World Cup skiing becomes annual subject.

Not this season.

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Italian skipper Matteo Franzoso died this week after her pre -season training in Chile fears about how to reduce high -speed exercise more than a month before the race started.

The discussion also comes less than five months ago from the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Franzoso, 25, has become the third rising Italian skipper who dies in less than a year.

Matilde Lorenzi, 19, died of her injury after a crash last October. Then in March, Marco de Glei Oumini, 18, died while testing the regional children’s race. A month later, Margot Simmond, who was 18 years old, died in a training accident as well.

In 2017, French skier David Bouyson, the former medal in the World Championship, died after a training accident in Canada. It was 35.

“How many tragic losses will we have to try before we finally open the debate about safety, especially during training?” The veteran French slope Adrian Tho wrote on Instagram.

“It is time to stop … you can’t go out to ski and then don’t go home,” added Lucrezia Lorenzi, the older sister of Matilde and a competitive skier.

The Italian Winter Sports Federation said that Franzoso crashed through two layers of safety fence in a path in Los Angeles Barva and criticized in another type of fence that was placed from six to seven meters (20-23 feet) outside the session. He was transferred by a helicopter to a hospital in Santiago, but he could not survive from the shock of the skull and the consequent swelling in his brain. He died two days later – a day before his twenty -sixth birthday.

The La Parva cycle has been widely used by skiers in the World Cup for years. Lindsie von and the American ski team were training there a week before Franzoso’s crash and many other national teams there this month.

Italian veteran Christophe Enerhofer completed a round before Franzoso’s crash and heard about the accident. Then Innerhofer saw the crash site with his eyes when he returned on a chair and looked at his fallen colleague.

“I was not matte, when I saw where I fell, as they were applying help in emergency situations, with you on the other side of the fence, I lost my mind because I was afraid of the severity of the situation.”

He said that the 40 -year -old Innerhofer has been shaken to the point that it abandoned the training camp and went to Italy: “These are the most difficult days that I have ever passed as athlete.”

Franzoso’s death has sparked a discussion whether the International Ski and Skipping Federation in Switzerland should take over a greater role in ensuring safety in the southern hemisphere.

Ushuaia in Argentina and Coronet Peak in New Zealand are also common destinations for skating in the World Cup in August and September.

The Italian Federation held an urgent meeting on Friday and called for the establishment of training courses for national teams.

“The proposal can include two sessions in the southern hemisphere for summer training, and some training courses in Europe and North America for autumn and winter training,” said the Italian Federation, known as Fisi.

Fisi added that the training courses must contain Aman, B and C networks just like the courses used in the World Cup races.

“In the coming weeks, Fis will condense with stakeholders, always with one guidance principle: the welfare and safety of athletes must come first,” FIS said in a statement on Friday.

Starting this season, all skiers in the World Cup will be asked to wear a loader of air bags under their race for slope races and Super-G; The cut -resistant underwear for all events.

Aerobic bags, which are briefly enlarged when activated by an advanced algorithm can feel when the skirt loses control, as an optional safety device for years.

Cutting underwear protects against increasing injuries from advanced ski edges. For example, the underwear may have helped prevent severe damage and nerves in the right calf from Alexander Ameuda Keld, the Norwegian prominent during a terrible collision in January 2024. Keld has gone out since the fall but hopes to return this season.

“Such moments bring in the sharp focus on the deep risks that are an inseparable part of our sport,” said Fis. “It is not possible to eliminate the risks inherent in skiing on the Alps, but – by listening, by increasing awareness, and by enhancing the dialogue that leads to collective action – we can reduce risks.”

Franzoso was from the coastal city of Genoa, but he moved to the mountains near Cister to continue his skiing career. His funeral will take place on Tuesday in Cestere – where skiing was made at the 2006 Turin Olympics.

For Milan Cortina games in February, you will hold men’s skiing in Burmeo and will hold women’s skiing in Courtina de Ambizo.

Both Stelvio in Bormio and Olympia Dele Tofane in Cortina have been the location of many prominent incidents in recent years. Michaela Chevrerene struck the Cortina networks at a high speed in 2024, and was from the French match, Sarazin Sarazen, for surgery to drain the brain after he set out in the air and fell strongly on Stelvio last season.

The World Cup for this season opens to Rettenbach Glacier in Solden, Austria, at the end of October.