tenth November 2024
The protection measure by the Worldwide Ski and Snowboard Federation will come into impact for each classes within the coming 2024/25 season. NEW
The FIS Council has confirmed that using airbags shall be obligatory for all athletes competing within the velocity disciplines of Alpine Snowboarding.
“For FIS, athlete security comes first and is non-negotiable,” mentioned FIS Secretary Normal Michel Vion.
“This has been on the prime of our agenda, and it’s why we established the Athlete Well being Unit in 2023, for instance.”
It comes after the latest loss of life of 19-year-old Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi in a crash whereas coaching.
It’s reported she fell at velocity and her head crashed towards the icy floor of the slope.
She was a specialist in velocity occasions and was the Italian senior super-G champion final season.
She completed sixth within the downhill and eighth within the super-G on the 2024 Junior World Championships in Chatel, France.
Her greatest outcome within the European Cup, the final step earlier than the World Cup, was an eleventh place in super-G in December 2023 in St Moritz, Switzerland.
“The adoption of airbags is a part of a broader method that entails all of the components that may minimise the danger of significant accidents: from the information round climate circumstances and observe set-up to gear akin to cut-resistant undergarment and good bindings,” added a press release from FIS.
“We’ll embrace any measure that’s confirmed to assist shield athletes’ well being and welfare.”
Exceptions will be granted by the Nationwide Ski Affiliation within the occasion that the airbag doesn’t match an athlete, such that the airbag restricts motion in an unsafe method.
