Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 🇳🇴 - hospital interview after monstrous crash in Wengen, Jan 17, 2024
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- From the hospital bed, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 🇳🇴 recounts his season-ending ski crash during the downhill race from Wengen (Jan 13, 2024), the help and support from Mikaela Shiffrin and her family and also from his family #weareskiing @atomic
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I know Aleksander has a long road ahead of him, but I know he can do it!! I am keeping him in my prayers. Wishing Aleksander all the best as he will start his recovery!
Good and fast recovery! You are a great person.🥰
Скорейшего выздоровления любимому горнолыжнику 🙏✊✊💖
Alex know that falls, injuries and pain will only make you stronger. Look at Lindsey Von, Swindal, Cyprien... everyone has experienced this and made them even stronger to get back to the top. Courage and never give up Alex. We already miss you . Nico💪🏆❄🥰💖✨✨
Kind of a really humble attitude. Strong and hard line on the slopes, warm-hearted and human besides. Respect for you🫶🏼. Wish your recovery would be without complications👍🍀
😢😢😢 get well soon Aleks, fans are always here to encourage you, stay safe and be careful, crashes makes us...have a heart attack 😢😢😢at home as well, stay with us some more, enjoying skiing competitions is such a great time indeed😢😢😢, get well soon, big loving hug champion ❤🎉❤
What an amazing attitude. You are missed but you will be back stronger than ever.
Your strength and determination will make a great recovery! Can't wait to see you back on course.
I am a big fan of AK and all the Attacking Vikings! All the best in a healthy recovery! You will be back stronger than ever💪.
Sure missed seeing you at Kitzbuhel!
A great athlete and person! Wish to him a speedy and full recovery! 💪🤙
If y’all saw the interview with Mikaela after her 94th victory in Flachau, she was extremely emotional and I believe it was largely because Alek was on her mind and the release was overdue.
COURAGE et prompt rétablissement. Merci de ce beau ski !
Wishing you a speedy Aleksander! As you said, one step at a time, when you have to pull on your "patience pants" to get through the recovery. You're healthy and strong. Sending lots of healing thoughts and prayers. You have lots of loving support from Mikaela, friends, family, and fans! Take care, Jenny ❤🌈⛷
You are strong, praying for your total recovery
Du bist beste Mann ❤wird wieder 1000%❤
Just a bump in the road? His freaking lower leg was 2/3 severed! Check out the photos. Just BRUTAL..... these DH racers are a different breed. Hope he makes a full recovery...he is such a good dude.
Hoping for a complete recovery Aleks!
All the best Aleksander!
I wish you a quick recovery...!!!
Hope you get a quick and full recovery.
Having smashed a few bones skiing and from 3 months lying down as a result to the question would I ever ski again, the answer has been heck yeah! Just hang in there and go with the rehab program even if you're out for 6 months!
Boss of the mountain as well as the mind. Heal strong.
Bode Miller almost cut his leg off by a sharp ski in a crash some years ago. I have seen kevlar underwear for downhill racers advertised on various ski apparel sites. Just like helmets now being mandatory, maybe there should be mandatory minimum protect for areas other than what a helmet protects. Pirmin Zubriggen used to race downhill with a helmet that looks like a race car helmet. That would have helped Alex's face look a lot better than it does now.
As fans we want to see our best skiers succeed and do something that seems impossible, without permanently hurting/killing the athlete. For instance, a freestyle skier doesn't do a complex flip/turn unless they have used mats, ropes, and other devices to protect them when they are first learning to perform that trick.
Because of races being cancelled at the beginning of the season, they were inserted back into the FIS calendar. There was a SG event, downhill practice, and two downhills at Wengen without a break between events. Even though Alex is one of the strongest and fittest male downhill racers and had a cold which made him weak, he skied all of those days. You could see his legs wobble and buckle in the last two turns of the downhill. Wengen is usually the most taxing event on the DownHill (DH) and Supergiant Slalom (SG) circuit and many skiers were ready to pass out in the finish area. FIS, please change the rules for how many events can be stacked together without a break to recover.
About helmets it is a matter of... "balance of power": a more complex helmet limits breathing and visibility. And it can cause a worst scenario other than a broken nose. Modern helmets and masks protects more and better than 1980's motorcycle helmet and goggles FOR SURE. Maybe they will find something, but there is a reason in using that kind of equipment.
You have a point about stacking so many races together.
Alles gute und gute Besserung 👍👍👍👍👍
Stay strong. You’ve got this!
Forza AAK!!! ❤
Rest and heal. That was a rough fall on the last gate. It could have been worse though. You will be back, because you are a great racer. Sometimes things are just out of our control.
I see you go better thats good i wish you get well soon and best regards to Bern🇨🇭i live dere
Quick recovery Aleks👍the crash was bad but you are a very lucky guy, you know why.
Grande campione tornerai più forte di prima ti aspettiamo 🇮🇹👏👏👏
I will miss the rivalry between you and Odermatt.
Get well soon young man !
Good luck guy. ❤.
Wish you a fast recovery and look forward to your next run!
God bedring! 👍🥇⛷️
Of course in the sense of the sport it has a great impact as he was one of those who regulary entered the podium. But there are more important things to life sometimes, even when it's about your greatest passion. He shell take the time to recover and when the next olympics come 2026, we will see where the road has taken him till then. 👍
some good thoughts on safety equiptment. get well, Alek!
Auguri di pronta guarigione
They have come a long way with safety precautions… 20 years ago that crash would have been career ending!
...or fatal. After Herman Meier's Nagano crash of 98 the crash fencing at international level events was dramatically improved. Where the real danger exists is at the lower level races, such as junior, national, and even lower level FIS races. They can not afford to put up such extensive crash netting for these races. For example, Max Burkhardt, a 17 year old racer died while racing a Downhill in Lake Louise, Canada on December 7, 2017....
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True. When I was racing in college, we had a couple that had been Europa Cup skiers for Germany, and they showed us a German magazine with photos from an E Cup DH race where someone was torn in half through the middle during a crash. It was horrific!
@@keirfarnum6811 yep. One of my ski coaches had her career end early from a crash in a Europa Cup. Weeks in the hospital, ended up with a metal plate in her skull, never raced again.
get well Kilde can not wait to see you again on the slopes
Alek, you can call her Hop Along for awhile! :)
I didn't know Mikaela had a boyfriend. Speedy recovery, all the blessings. Find Near infrared light. 900 nm. It will help you recover faster, will be praying for you.
Aleks is at least a bit lucky. Mikaela bought that nice Vail house in the last couple of years. I would think that would be a very nice place to recuperate. Aleks FYI there is a former ski racer named Marco Tonazzi who used to have a ski shop in Vail. He probably is still around there. He is older than you; but you might enjoy talking to him about ski racing, etc. You are probably both not really competing fiercely at this point.
what the hell is this comment. Wild start to finish
Heal well and best wishes
Все будет хорошо
Odermatt and many others uses already cut resistant underwear and also an airbag. Kilde does not....
Mi dispiace per quanto accaduto Matteo Valentino
The question nobody asks is : Why did he crash? This was not a typical downhill crash. He skied badly from top to bottom,, was over 2 seconds behind at the time if the "" crash " and almost fell on the last minor jump. What did he do the night before?
Well I don't know about that but there is a video of Bode Miller talking about this last turn to the finish line. Its the end of the longest downhill, legs are shot, the compression on weak legs is so bad one comes close to passing out. Bode says this last turn was for him the toughest in downhill, he usually got tunnel vision from all the blood going to his legs. In that sense it's not a complete surprise.
I believe that was downhill no. 2 on Wengen . To make up for one of the DH races canceled earlier in the season. The weekend was DH, SuperG, Dh, in fact. And he was reported to be recovering from the flu. Yet he finished second in DH1 and won the SG 🤯 so bad bad luck for him…
I guess you don’t know that every night before the race they need to draw bib and given that there’s a super G race the day before the crash and he place thirds there’s also an awarding ceremony included and since he’s just recovering from illness(colds) his body and strength must not be the same compared to when he’s fully fit.
Three Majors in three days is very, very depleting on their "A Game" form. Perhaps why he was asked a "leading question" about course safety, and FIS action.🎉
He was sick and said so repeatedly, even before the race weekend began. He skipped one of the training runs. It’s not some big mystery!
You could wear full face helmets. Duh.
As mentioned on another comment, full face helmets are often less safe.
His face just has a few scratches... his leg is the problem...