Doping | ÖSV boss furious: “Such idiots”

It's no secret that Peter Schröcksnadel loves alpine skiing more than its Nordic counterpart. The ÖSV president did that ORF interview also immediately became clear when he stated that he knew “relatively little” about cross-country skiing. A bizarre statement, because as the highest chairman of the ski association in Austria, Schröcksnadel should not only be entrusted with his core competence.

But that is obviously not the case and now the 77-year-old is even questioning competitive cross-country skiing in Austria. “I don’t want to have cross-country skiing in the association any more,” snapped Schröcksnadel, before immediately adding: “That’s not possible, unfortunately. They should found their own association, that would be better.” Schröcksnadel “actually doesn’t believe” in clean cross-country skiing.

Combiner Klapfer mocks doping offenders Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke, the two doped Austrian cross-country skiers, described Schröcksnadel as “idiots”: “The lies are all there. And all that just because of a few medals? But they can't get them anyway, they're running around 20th place. “Then what sense does it make to dope?” said Schröcksnadel, who was in the same vein as the 33-year-old combined athlete Lukas Klapfer.

The Austrian had described the two doped ÖSV cross-country skiers on Instagram as “top plums” and added: “Being no matter how bad with doping is actually the bonus.” Klapfer wrote this under an Instagram post from Baldauf, which was published after the current one Doping scandal certainly seems ridiculous. “How much does it actually cost to make dreams come true? Courage. Just courage!” Baldauf wrote after finishing 6th in the team sprint with Hauke. Dominik Baldauf at the team sprint in Seefeld, which he competed in together with Max Hauke. © APA / GEORG HOCHMUTH

Schröcksnadel is particularly annoyed by this Subject: Johannes Dürr , that after Seefeld doping scandal once again came into the focus of the media. Apparently the TV documentary “The Greed for Gold”, which was broadcast by ARD in the winter, had the stone removed Blood dopting investigations underway brought. “Mr. Dürr wanted to start here in Seefeld, but we immediately said: 'That's out of the question!'” says Schröcksnadel.

Dürr has been sued by the ÖSV twice in the last few months and an injunction against the Lower Austrian was obtained. The convicted doping offender at the Sochi Olympics had claimed that “the Austrian association was turning a blind eye to doping”. But the statements before Dürr seem so absurd recent revelations not to be. Or is it actually possible that no coach or supervisor noticed that two of their athletes were doping? Anti-doping expert: “People are being taken for stupid” The anti-doping expert Wilhelm Lilge considers this to be unbelievable. “This is ridiculous, people are being taken for stupid. “It’s unthinkable that trainers who were always there didn’t notice anything,” Lilge said Courier quoted. The lone perpetrator theory, which the ÖSV tried to develop after the doping scandals in 2002, in Turin in 2006 and the Dürr case in 2014, is definitely becoming more and more doubtful.

It doesn't help that the former Nordic combined athlete Felix Gottwald (he is Austria's most successful winter athlete at the Olympic Games) is in ORF emphasizes: “This blanket condemnation bothers me. Eradicating all cross-country skiing in Austria is not an option. Because of two, the whole entourage is not allowed to pay extra.” Whether it will stay with these two remains to be seen. The busted doping network from Germany could be more extensive than previously known. And Schröcksnadel says: “They are criminals. All criminals."

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Doping | ÖSV boss furious: “Such idiots”

In a bizarre interview, Peter Schröcksnadel presented himself as a betrayed ÖSV president, described the doped athletes as “idiots” and questioned the future of Austrian cross-country skiing. He is now receiving a lot of misunderstanding for this.

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