The historic ex -blue designer is upset by the death of the blue skier in Chile: “Safety on the track must be increased”
“If I still made a free descent today, I confess that I would never want the new skis to be changed, they give the adrenaline of speed: but the truth is that they are too fast, especially in curves. It is time to change them”. The former Italian historian descent Kristian Ghedina, twice world silver, is upset by the death of Matteo Franzoso, the blue skier who remained victim of a serious fall in training in La Parva, in Chile. “Impact a wall or a tree can be mortal already at 40-50 per hour -he says to the Ansa -in training it is also reached at 120 km/h: eliminating the risk of all the risk is not possible.
Ghedina on Franzoso’s death
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Ghedina then enters the detail of how it could be done to guarantee athletes more security on the track. “It is necessary to increase the escape spaces and improve the protection networks. You could find a system to make increasingly secure slopes but doing it 100% is practically impossible – adds to LaPresse -. Then you could go back, using materials that allow more to create speed in curves. Today when you make your steering strength and you are able to bear the centrifugal force, take speed and become a slingshot. It is behind the doors “.