I used to work as a course worker at ski racing and when a skier was on the course, every worker had to be off the course. I can't see how this happened and there is really no excuse for it. Fifty people should have been yelling at the guy via the radio. If he had kept going straight, she would have missed him. Just a shame.
World Championships in Sierra Nevada had a lot of rescheduling due to unstable weather conditions just like previous WC in Morioka, Japan. Wind and fog were a big problem for downhill competitions so the organizers rushed to finish the training runs in order to execute the downhill races on scheduled day. One big factor in this particular crash was that that time of starting order betweeen racers differed from 40 seconds to one minute. The course was about 1:50-1:55 min long and at one point there were even 3 skiers on the course at the same time since they started every 40 seconds when the conditions were not favorable. Which I think is unheard of but like I said DH training runs already had many delays. The other factor was a bad communication. A jump called Jeronimo is about 20-25 seconds before the finish and as the world super-G champion Isolde Kostner with bib 29 passed FIS official Schonhaar obviosly thought that nobody is on the course since they always have a break after number 30. But number 30 was still on the course... Although Lebedeva had to finish her career after this crash she can consider herself lucky. In almost exactly the same circumstances Regine Cavagnoud tragically lost her life in October 2001 at the super-G training in Austria when she collided with a german coach who survived...
Only after watching it a few times did I notice that she hit him so hard & fast that she literally lifted him clean out of both of his ski bindings; there must have been some kilonewtons of force to do that
received injuries to both legs, after 7 operations she tried to train, but the pain in the knee did not allow and as a result, the next year she retired.
@@insurgent0257 so sad for her! it should had been him who suffered such serious injuries for ignoring several safety measures. unbelievable how one ignorant course worker destroyed her entire carrear.
"Gian Franco Kasper called the accident an 'act of idiocy' on the part of the american. Kasper said Schoenhaar had no orders from FIS to be on the course during the women's training run."
An extremely nasty crash and the athlete could not do anything about it. Luckily she "only" entangled and did not hit him frontal. They both could have died.
Looked like it may have been intentional, maybe to get her in particular out of the contest. He may also have been playing an intentional game of "chicken."
I used to work as a course worker at ski racing and when a skier was on the course, every worker had to be off the course. I can't see how this happened and there is really no excuse for it. Fifty people should have been yelling at the guy via the radio. If he had kept going straight, she would have missed him. Just a shame.
WIth 50 people yelling at the same he wouldnt have understood anything. And anyways he was the coach and director of the US-team at that time
This is Spain
World Championships in Sierra Nevada had a lot of rescheduling due to unstable weather conditions just like previous WC in Morioka, Japan. Wind and fog were a big problem for downhill competitions so the organizers rushed to finish the training runs in order to execute the downhill races on scheduled day. One big factor in this particular crash was that that time of starting order betweeen racers differed from 40 seconds to one minute. The course was about 1:50-1:55 min long and at one point there were even 3 skiers on the course at the same time since they started every 40 seconds when the conditions were not favorable. Which I think is unheard of but like I said DH training runs already had many delays. The other factor was a bad communication. A jump called Jeronimo is about 20-25 seconds before the finish and as the world super-G champion Isolde Kostner with bib 29 passed FIS official Schonhaar obviosly thought that nobody is on the course since they always have a break after number 30. But number 30 was still on the course... Although Lebedeva had to finish her career after this crash she can consider herself lucky. In almost exactly the same circumstances Regine Cavagnoud tragically lost her life in October 2001 at the super-G training in Austria when she collided with a german coach who survived...
Only after watching it a few times did I notice that she hit him so hard & fast that she literally lifted him clean out of both of his ski bindings;
there must have been some kilonewtons of force to do that
Хорошо, не убила идиота
Фотограф бы ещё на трассе формулы бы поснимал
For me, to this day, this is the worst ski accident I have ever seen.
And after that accident she never returned to the worldcup 😢
NEVER watch Gernot Reinstadler accident then
Bad accident of course, but not the worst. Gernot died while skiing
@@Zx17OPv57i Or the fatal accident of Ulli Maier.
Régine cavagnoud…
Откуда взялся этот мажор в шляпе???
"heh Manuel, don't forget your walkie-talkie."
*Shrugs*
Well, in fact, the retard who forgot the walkie-talkie was Harald Schoenhaar, a german official.
Yes, spanish name.
Manuel was safe with his walkie-talkie and away... Better ask Harald (Us-German Citizen an FIS judge) to have it with him.
Wow! Hope she was able to recover!
received injuries to both legs, after 7 operations she tried to train, but the pain in the knee did not allow and as a result, the next year she retired.
Chi era il deficiente che si trovava in traiettoria?
@@insurgent0257 so sad for her! it should had been him who suffered such serious injuries for ignoring several safety measures. unbelievable how one ignorant course worker destroyed her entire carrear.
@@TheKeeeks97 He was one of these evil germans 😂😂
"Gian Franco Kasper called the accident an 'act of idiocy' on the part of the american. Kasper said Schoenhaar had no orders from FIS to be on the course during the women's training run."
An extremely nasty crash and the athlete could not do anything about it. Luckily she "only" entangled and did not hit him frontal. They both could have died.
troppa gente in pista. troppi soldi
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ma che cosa stracazzo c'entrano i soldi
Ach du heilige Scheisse 😱😱😱😱
Sierra nevada non è un posto per fare sci.non hanno organizzazione .Tomba aveva ragione quando criticó quel posto
Her legs was fkd up pretty bad
pazzesco
When pillocksbruled the world
this only happens in spain lol
She was russian 😐
Sierra Nevada in spain?
@@rz124 Ehmmm... yes, in Spain. Southern Spain.
@@droidec1p8 i recognized another one in the us.😅🤷🏻♂️
@@rz124 ok
Looked like it may have been intentional, maybe to get her in particular out of the contest. He may also have been playing an intentional game of "chicken."
Surely not, the guys left leg was smashed as well
Touch grass, bud.
This comment is embarrassing. 🤦♂