2024 has already had some of the biggest ski crashes in history. From downhill ski races out in Slovakia, Italy, France, and even the United States, ski racers are wiping out more than usual.. Subscribe if you also love skiing!
I'm glad this summary exists. The FIS needs to make changes to the race schedule and daily schedules to allow racers time to recover. As Mikaela Shiffrin said, fatigue probably played a role in many of these crashes. Likewise, changes need to be made to the future Women's Olympic Downhill course at Cortina d'Ampezzo; that race was a bloodbath.
The pronunciation of most names (of both athletes and venues) is killing me. Nonetheless, hope all of the skiers have a speedy recovery, the crashes looked horrible..
@@puzzlebuilding101No it’s not!! What on earth are you talking about?!? AI doesn’t produce videos that sound like they are from a slightly high-pitched stoner(!!) 🤦♂️
Shiffrin managed it perfectly. Assessed the situation, knew she was in trouble, hit the brakes and calculated the fall-slide. All at terrifying speed. Still a painful fall. The bad thing about high speed or high impact sports is that a few thousandths of a second or millimeters can cost you for the rest of your life. Or your whole life. But to excel, overcome and triumph at those risk levels....Thats also lifelong. Pros and Cons. Stay gold.
Hate to say it, but making the turns that fast to where many of these best Down Hill skiers in the whole wide world can not make that turn most of the time is just dead wrong and foolish by the slope designers. The slope designers couldn't even get down that designed slope the first 10 feet without busting their asses. These professional skiers make their livelihood doing this most dangerous sport. It's like a death wish by the slope designers just because they can't come close to skiing at this level. Should never design a turn this ridiculously made to purposely crash and damage these great Skiers.
Hate to break it to you but the people designing these slopes are actually ex-professional skiers and the slopes Arena also tested multiple times by those people to make adjustments. The skiers who will race also test the slopes for training and learning every detail of it. However, the weather, mostly the Temperature can change the condition of the slope and make it Mode dangerous. Then it's in the officials hands (also mostly ex-professionals) to either not let the race start or to make adjustments to the slope if it is not safe for the racers.
There was a Romanian female racer in the same Cortina race that glanced off that fence and got tossed about 100m down the slope. Find the full race and look much later in the start order.
No, it's not. The skiers have pushed to the limit and now gone past. They aren't going blindly down the course, every competitor has trained on the hill and inspected the course prior to racing it. This isn't a kiddies league, they're adults and make their own decisions.
Part of the problem is the FIS scheduling, also the poor weather and bad snow conditions, but the injuries are occurring on courses set far to tight and with poor terrain consideration. Television coverage has begun impacting race safety because the FIS now sets so that the TV cameras get the best coverage, regardless of racer safety!
The skies also. Snow conditions not that much. However they also make the slopes mostly to agressiv to give fair conditions and some tracks and jumps are to long to plesure the viewer. About bad snow, you ski outside. When you see the slopes from the 70 80 90 the tracks are in insane good conditions this times. It`s not that easy, that for sure...
Petra Vlhova was not racing a slalom course. I raced for 12 years and coached for another 5. Slalom has one gate per turn, no flag and you wear a face guard and poke guards to cross block the gates out of your way. Poor Petra, recover soon! For the AI that wrote this… Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Actually Isabella Wright’s crash looked worse but she was back in the next race the next day. Also Corrine Suter’s injury was not on the same corner as Bella but was the same corner as Shiffrin’s crash.
I don't get why they have to make the courses so dangerous, with so many big jumps and tight turns right afterwards. Simply trying to minimize the amounts of jumps would go a long way to making downhill (and Super-G) safer. I know that it's a very dangerous sport due to the speed no matter what precautions you take, but it's obvious that the organizers aren't thinking much about safety when designing the courses. It seems more like they are thinking about what looks the coolest for tv.
fully agree with you here. the sport is already highly dangerous considering the speed and no protection at all, but to make these crazy high jumps right before insanely sharp turns is an oversight thats gonna get someone killed at this rate. honestly the skiiers should organize a strike on this dangerous shit, its literally insane how the organizers jeapordize the safety and health of the athletes
@@Seras51 meh, no one is forcing you to race downhill or super G. It's insanely dangerous no matter what, if you mellow out the turns and jumps you're just gonna have guys carrying even more insane amounts of speed, and we can all agree they're going fast enough already. They need better safety fencing, new technology of some sort focused around the turns that are likely to cause crashes, the same way F1 does. However, the women should not be riding these lines, a huge part of the field just can't handle it. another angle to look at is the fact many of these crashes were impossible to avoid once they reached the incident turn. Too many factors were already set in motion. However crashes like the one at 0:45 could be avoided with some kind of telemetry and an earpiece or buzzer or whatever, something to let the skiier now they are going way faster than they should be, if you hear this noise and know you are skiing a very aggressive low line, you need to bail out instead of making the gate and skiing straight into the fence. If the lady at 0:45 had some kind of feedback that she was absolutely not gonna make the gate she could've steered it downhill and avoided that huge impact. Same thing at 1:50. No woman on earth was gonna make that turn after hitting that roller with that much speed. If you can't trust course designers, teams should atleast be able to provide some degree of safety to their athletes through telemetry and a sort of self imposed speed limit for the most dangerous sections.
this curve is mathematically not possible while taking speed into it, it even goes a little downhill so the skis cant get grip and you havce about 15 meters airtime before you can prepare the curve
Speaking for The Patriarchy, can I just say, I can’t tell from watching which skiers are male or female! All I can say is that they each kick more ass on the slopes than I could ever imagine!
Interesting (and sadly painful) video. But please, honor the athletes by learning to pronounce their names properly, same as for the locations of the FIS races…
Sorry to be negative, but the writing on this video was bad. Very much surface level. Mabye you‘ll get better, if this is one of your earlier tries. No hate, just critic. Good luck for the next videos👍
video's with titles such as stupidist falls are hugely inconsiderate and need to be re-titled there is nothing amusing about incidents such as these when people have been hurt..........
