“Scandal”: turmoil at the World Cup after a near-tragedy

What happened? The Nordic combined athletes held their jumping on the Bergiselschanze on Friday. When the Estonian athlete Kristjan Ilves fell after his jump, this happened Near-disaster : His ski came loose, picked up speed on the opposite slope and flew at high speed over or through the safety net into a moderation area that was fortunately free at the time.

Yhdistetyn mäkiosuus par' aikaa käynnissä Eurosport 1:llä. Selostamossa Tommy Rundgren. Kisa tarjonnut jo aikamoista draamaa Kristjan Ilveksen kaatumisen muodossa! #mmseefeld #yhdistetty #ilves #kaato pic.twitter.com/9sOZ1OkyIO

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In the video of Ilves' fall: How the ski got into the mixed zone was not captured by the cameras.

Martin Schmitt, who works as an expert for Eurosport, stood “two, maybe three meters” from where the ski hit. The German was correspondingly angry, especially criticizing the management of the FIS. “The real scandal, and you have to call it that, is that you don't react and the net is just hung higher and looser as an alibi. And then hope that the next jumper, if that happens again, the ski gets caught in it,” said Schmitt at Eurosport. “There really can’t be a bigger warning shot” Martin Schmitt about the FIS The 41-year-old made a clear appeal to the organizers on Bergisel in Innsbruck, where there is a counter slope after the steep run-out. “There really can't be a bigger warning shot and you have to take action. If you want to hold the competition, you have to clear the mixed zone and find another way to protect the athletes,” said Schmitt. He attested that the World Ski Federation FIS had “poor competition management”.

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“Scandal”: turmoil at the World Cup after a near-tragedy

The former world-class jumper and current Eurosport expert Martin Schmitt was almost hit by a flying ski in the mixed zone at the Combined World Championships. Now he is being harshly criticized.

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