Ski stars stunned: “What are we all being tested for?”

The overall World Cup winner Federica Brignone wrote on social media: “What are we all being tested for? How can it be that all athletes in a nation (all of whom are negative in three tests) are not allowed to race because of a positive coach? Is that fair?”

On Wednesday evening, a Swedish trainer was found to be positive. A short time later it turned out that this was the South Tyrolean Christian Thoma act. The responsible authorities then ordered that the entire Swedish team has to go into quarantine. The Swedes, including podium candidate Anna Swenn-Larsson, will miss the slaloms on Saturday and Sunday in Lapland.

“Why is football allowed to continue even if there are some positive cases?” Federico Brignone Brignone compared the situation to that in football and asked: “Why is it allowed to continue playing in football, where there is physical contact between players, even if there are some positive cases? Please give us clear and equal rules.” Pinturault joins Brignone France's top star Alexis Pinturault sees equal opportunities at risk in the approach. If the rule remains such that the entire team is immediately affected in the event of a corona case, “then I will miss competitions too. That is not only likely, but certain.” The technology specialist pointed out that he and some other racing drivers, including Brignone and the Norwegian overall World Cup winner Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, had already been infected with Corona and therefore should actually have antibodies.

“The organizers have to revise their schedules” Alexis Pinturault Sees equal opportunities at risk: Alexis Pinturault © APA/afp / GEIR OLSEN

“The organizers have to revise their schedules,” demanded Pinturault in an interview Ski Chrono on Friday. Otherwise there could be consequences for sporting competition. He speculated that Swenn-Larsson, for example, could have problems staying in the first slalom starting group in the World Cup without any points from the two races in Levi. “That affects the chances enormously,” said the Frenchman.

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Ski stars stunned: “What are we all being tested for?”

After the entire Swedish ski team was isolated because of a positive corona test, criticism of the approach shortly before the two women's slaloms in Levi became loud.

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