The coaching earthquake in the ski circus: South Tyroleans in the middle of it all

Manuel Gamper, women's head coach in Canada for five years, received his immediate dismissal out of the blue just last Sunday. And that after he had drawn up the entire training program up to the 5 Olympics and made the hotel bookings for the training camps on the glaciers in Europe and South America. Manuel Gamper (right), here with father Franz, is no longer women's head coach in Canada.

Although the 41-year-old from Ultimo, who also worked for the US ski team, in Norway and Switzerland, could not be reached for a comment, the Canadian ski ladies are still extremely upset: they all wrote to association president Vania Grandi Letter of protest demanding that Manuel Gamper be reinstated. The Ultner, son of coaching legend Franz Gamper, was “fired” by Phil McNichol, the “High Performance Director of Alpine Team Canada”. Agneta Platter also fired Agneta Fast-Platter received her discharge papers from McNichol earlier. “It was on Women's Day on March 8th when I was fired,” the Malser woman with Swedish roots reflects. She was with the Canadian ski men for 8 years and was the only female coach on the World Cup slopes last season.

At that time, Agneta Platter, like other ski coaches on the men's team (including the Slovenian Dusan Grasic), was dismissed with immediate effect. But she insisted on accompanying her protégé James Crawford to the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, where the speed races were canceled due to bad weather. “Otherwise James would have been there unaccompanied at all. And that would never have been an option for me given our great human relationships." Despite a modest budget, the Canadian speed men almost caused a sensation at the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo: Both Brodie Seger (by 0,04 seconds in the super G) and James Crawford (combination) narrowly missed out on a medal by finishing fourth. Change at Azzurre There was also a bang at the beginning of the week for the “Azzurri”: Matteo Guadagnini is no longer the head coach of the World Cup slalom skiers. Two years ago, the 2-year-old from Fiemme Valley took the largest ski construction site at the “Azzurre” under his wing and although he did not achieve outstanding success, there were big steps forward. He also had to deal with a lot of bad luck with injuries last season (including cruciate ligament tears in Lara Della Mea and Marta Rossetti). At the beginning of the week, Guadagnini was informed that they wanted to waive him. It has been leaked that Devid Salvadori, husband of ex-racing driver Nadia Fanchini and most recently active in the men's European Cup group, will take over the slalom riders.

Christoph Kienzl from Nals has changed skiing. The last few years he worked for the German ski ladies. In the future he will work for the European Cup women in Switzerland, where Heini Pfitscher (Truden) is also employed. Livio Magoni (right) has a new job.

Meanwhile, successful coach Livio Magoni has caught two athletes with huge potential. After the inglorious and surprising separation from overall World Cup winner Petra Vlhova, the Vipiteno native is now training the technicians Meta Hrovat (Slovenia) and Martina Dubvoska (Czech Republic) in a private team. Vlhova, on the other hand, is said to have chosen Mauro Pini (ex-coach of Lara Gut and the Swiss women's team) as Magoni's successor, but official confirmation is still pending.

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The coaching earthquake in the ski circus: South Tyroleans in the middle of it all

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