Neureuther recently said that “rules” had to be made because the athlete strives to “optimize”. “It’s about hundredths, and if you find something where you can be a tenth faster, then you take it from and accept the risk,” said the 2013 slalom vice champion.
In terms of changes, Schmid says: “Where do you start, where do you stop? This is the problem. We athletes also have no real influence on what the slopes will look like in the future. The external conditions also play an enormous role. “
For the technical disciplines, i.e. in slalom and giant slalom, Neureuther believes, one can regulate the width of the ski “that fewer fleeting forces come about”. For women, Neureuther would be an approach to regulating the ski lengths because the women would partly drive with men’s skis.
At the Ski World Championship in Saalbach there should now be a round table where athletes, coaches, those responsible for the FIS and technicians sit down to discuss the safety of skiing. FIS racing director Markus Waldner said in Wengen at the beginning of the year: “It is not five to twelve, it is five after twelve.” Waldner also added: “Something really has to happen, short -term and long -term. We have to turn a bit on every screw.”
Neureuther believes that it is no longer possible this season to change something because developments in relation to the material need time. “Something has to happen to the next season because we need our stars, we need our faces,” said the ex-Skiass. In the middle of the month, 21 athletes were missing. In the meantime, more have been added, and every World Cup weekend increases the probability of a further fall.