DSV Alpine Director, Wolfgang Maier: Avoidable Cancellation in Val d’Isère and Fears for Future Races

2023-12-10 12:42:00

At least the cancellation in Val d’Isère might have been avoided, said Wolfgang Maier in an interview with “ARD”.

“I was at a meeting of the head coaches who complained that they hadn’t been careful enough with the surface. Actually, you should have shoveled the slope by hand, then you wouldn’t have destroyed the surface. But in our time, 200 people with us “It’s a difficult topic to put down with a shovel,” said the DSV alpine director.

Scenes like those in Zagreb are to be feared

He added: “The basic preparation is good, as we saw in the giant slalom. But the fresh snow pulls the water out of the slope. That’s why they drove machines onto the slope and broke the surface.”

According to Maier, holding the race might have led to scenes like the slalom in Zagreb at the beginning of 2022. Due to holes in the piste, the drivers had almost no chance starting around starting number ten. The Frenchman Victor Muffat-Jeandet was seriously injured at the time. A few minutes later the race was stopped.

Due to the weather, only two of nine planned races have been held in the men’s World Cup so far this season. For women, at least six out of nine were carried out.

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