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Featuring : Charles Balsan, Jordi Piq, Thibault Wepfer, Julien “Perly” Petry, Lionel Simon, Andreas Mancini and friends.
Report of the opening week in Les Deux Alpes.
Featuring : Antho Brotto, Antoine Baduel, Matthieu Brousse, Felix Carlier, Lionel Simon, Alex Tank, Thomas Delfino, François Ohl, Benoit Thomas Javid, Pierre Scafidi, Théo Declerck, Len Jorgensen, Kas Lemmens, Victor Daviet, Victor De Le Rue, Enzo Nilo, Remy Barreyat, Dimitri Biau, Tom Picamoles, Jordi Piq, Justin Dutilh, Vincent Remond and Nathan Benichou.
ROME — Perhaps if Lindsey Vonn had a big cushy air bag to fall on when she tore two ligaments in her right knee she wouldn’t have missed the Sochi Olympics.
And maybe Aksel Lund Svindal wouldn’t have broken bones in his face and suffered a laceration to his groin and abdominal area after failing to land a massive jump in 2007.
Looking back, it’s nearly impossible to calculate what effect — if any — an air bag would have had in those crashes.
An air bag system intended for speed races, such as downhill, will debut at the women’s downhill Jan. 10.
But with a radical air bag system being approved for use in World Cup and lower level races beginning in January, Alpine skiing could get a lot safer.
“History is what drives … More