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The 51-year-old Italian has succeeded Walter Hofer as FIS race director and has to immediately prove himself in the chaos of the crown.
For nearly 30 years, Walter Hofer was something of the epitome of ski jumping. Even when the weather was extremely fickle, you just had to watch a TV with the laid-back race director on the hill and you knew: everything will be fine. Ski jumping was in good hands with Hofer. The media professional turned a fundamentally irrational fringe sport into a product for the masses. And then suddenly it was gone.
This winter, Sandro Pertile, 51, took the scepter of ski jumpers from Walter Hofer. …
Retrieved December 28, 2020 at 1:20 am from https://www.sn.at/sport/wintersport/sandro-pertile-der-neue-herr-der-skisprungschanzen-97551643
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