"When I came back from injury, I was aware of the fencing on the side and a hole in the course and where the trees were, Shiffrin said in a recent interview. We are often training in conditions where the variables are just too many to control and you have to decide sometimes: Is this unreasonably dangerous, or is this within a reasonable level of danger that we need to train, we need to practice, and this is the only way we can do it?"
"Ongoing safety discussions in Alpine skiing came into fresh focus in September less than five months before the Olympics in Milan Cortina, Italy when World Cup racer Matteo Franzoso died following a crash in preseason training in Chile. The 25-year-old Italian crashed through two layers of safety fencing on a course at La Parva and slammed into a wooden fence positioned 6-7m (20-23ft) outside the course. He died two days later from cranial trauma and a consequent swelling of his brain."
Debate over the danger of Alpine ski training courses has intensified as the Olympic season opens five months before Milan-Cortina. Elite racers emphasize that training environments can contain uncontrolled variables such as damaged course fencing, holes, trees and external obstacles that increase risk. Multiple recent training crashes have produced severe injuries and fatalities, including the death of Matteo Franzoso after crashing through safety fencing and hitting an external wooden fence. Top competitors report lingering physical and psychological effects after crashes and debate whether some training sites cross the line from acceptable risk into unreasonably dangerous conditions.
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