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Friday, January 1, 2021
Shock in Ski Tour
Russia team bus crashes 50 meters
In the middle of the night, a bus from the Russian cross-country team crashes on the snowy road on the border between Switzerland and Italy and falls 50 meters into a frozen lake. Prisoners get away with minor injuries.
Shock in the middle of the night: A bus from the Tour de Ski’s Russian national cross-country ski team fell 50 meters near the Swiss-Italian border around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning and landed in a frozen lake. As “Blick” reports, all six team members got away with shock and minor injuries in the serious accident.
At a curve, the bus began to skid and went off the snowy road. The vehicle then fell backwards into the depths. According to information from the newspaper, the Russians were lucky because the team’s bus only sank halfway into the frozen lake. This allowed the members of the national team to break free and ask for help.
After the call, a team of doctors and firefighters were on duty with various vehicles and helpers, and the police secured the crash site. The recovery of the vehicle involved in the accident lasted all night and was only finished at 8:30 am The Swedish newspaper “Aftonbladet” quoted Markus Cramer, the German coach of the Russian team: “We are shocked, but happy that everything it’s okay. It was a terrible fall. ”
The Russian star copes well with the news of a bus accident
Russian media reports that the victims are not athletes, but a team of helpers. The bus was heading to Livogno, where the Russian team was based in Val Müstair before the Tour de Ski started today.
At the start of the Tour de Ski, Italian Federico Pellegrino prevailed ahead of Alexander Bolschunow in the final. The Russian, who probably saved the news of the bus accident and had won the 2020 Tour de Ski, arrived 0.57 seconds after Pellegrino. The German cross-country skiers could not intervene in the race for the first places. In the men’s category, no German reached the quarterfinals. The best athlete in national coach Peter Schlickenrieder’s team was Janosch Brugger, who crossed the finish line after 3:15:30 in qualifying and was 47th.
In the freestyle sprint in Val Müstair, Sofie Krehl was eliminated as the best German athlete in the quarterfinals. The 25-year-old ran in 3: 47.27 minutes, the slowest of the 30 starters who had survived qualifying. Sweden’s Linn Svahn was victorious ahead of Slovenian Anamarija Lampic and Jessie Diggins of the United States.
The Tour de Ski spans eight stages in Switzerland, as well as the Italian Toblach and Val die Fiemme. The strong Norwegian team around last year’s winner Therese Johaug does not attend the event for fear of a corona infection.
