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Four other crown cases among Austrian ski jumpers cast doubt on the FIS concept and charter. FIS race director Pertile also tested positive.
Nizhny Tagil. Austrian ski jumpers do not leave the lower crown. In Russia, four other athletes tested positive on Sunday: Daniel Huber, Thomas Lackner, Manuel Fettner and Jan Hörl. Then the ÖSV canceled the participation in the competition in Nizhny Tagil. It is not yet clear if those affected should be quarantined at the scene. With Sandro Pertile, the FIS race director even delivered a positive test for Covid-19.
After there have already been cases with Czechs, Bulgarians, Russians and the eagles of the ÖSV (coach Widhölzl, Kraft, Hayböck, Schlierenzauer, Aschenwald), the big guess begins. The “contact tracing” probably makes little sense because apart from the ÖSV eagles’ B selection, which was forwarded and must now have been infected on site, the entire jumper team has been traveling together for more than three weeks. The FIS charter took off in Munich, they flew to Ruka (FIN) and Russia, from there they all wanted to travel together to the Ski Flying World Championship in Planica.
Is the travel community the solution to the conundrum, or the fact that the Norwegian cross country team, after the competitions in Ruka, outraged by the (supposedly miserable) precautions of the Covid, has sought to widen the suspicion of errors in local organizers and the FIS? Why else are so many ski jumpers loaded with positive evidence? The mere fact that FFP2 masks were not used in the ÖSV does not provide any concrete answer.
ÖSV director Stecher wants to wait
Currently, a multi-day quarantine for the entire ÖSV team in Russia cannot be ruled out. In any case, Pertile was immediately quarantined; all other FIS employees had only negative tests. Mario Stecher, sports director of ski jumping and Nordic combination, made it clear that you can take your time until today or Wednesday to decide if you will be in Planica. Everyone has to submit a negative PCR test to participate. (-the)
(“Die Presse”, print edition, December 7, 2020)
