A bad surprise for Aaron March

The professional snowboarder's Facebook profile was recently hacked. “Yesterday (Wednesday, editor's note) I saw that the current photos from the last few months were suddenly gone. Today (Thursday) the page has completely disappeared,” regrets the overall World Cup winner, who was followed by 3500 fans on his profile.

“The social media manager of the Italian winter sports association has arranged for me to get my profile back. But I think it's going to be a long process," fears March, who is puzzled as to why he became a victim of this attack. “All I know is that the sites with the verification checkmark are particularly popular with hackers. It would be stupid if any posts were made with my profile and my name now.” The same annoyance happened to Roland Fiwickeler March's fans should be warned that not everything that appears on the internet these days actually comes from his hand. Incidentally, the 34-year-old is not the first snowboarder to experience this annoyance. Roland Filehner's social media account was also attacked by hackers in 2018.

Social media is very important for professional athletes these days. “Communicating directly with the fans is important. You can always be up to date with just one click. Even if I have to say that I'm not a big social media person. “I do what is important to me and what concerns my sport,” said March.

Apart from this inconvenience, things are going really well for the snowboarder at the moment. A few weeks ago he was crowned overall World Cup winner and celebrated the greatest success of his career. “It’s a dream come true for me,” said the 34-year-old, who added: “Before the start of the season, this was the least I expected this year. I changed the material, so everything was a bit uncertain. I went into the season with the motto: Let's see how it goes. Maybe that was the deciding factor: I was very relaxed this year.” The amusing arrangement with the girlfriend Or was it an agreement with his girlfriend Andrea? “Before the season I bought a good bottle of rum. So I agreed with my girlfriend that we would only have a drink if I won a race. “Now we’ve already had a few drinks,” the three-time World Cup winner has to smile and adds with a wink: “Maybe that was the deciding factor.”

March now has a few more training sessions and material tests on the agenda before he wants to take “a little vacation” at Pentecost. Then it's time to concentrate fully on preparation again, after all, the Olympic Games are on the agenda next winter. “A medal is definitely a goal of mine,” says the overall World Cup winner combatively.

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A bad surprise for Aaron March

Aaron March caused a big surprise last winter with his overall World Cup victory among parallel snowboarders. Now Schabser, who has lived in Völs for several years, was surprised himself - but not in a particularly positive way.

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