Para-Ski World Championships-harsh criticism of Forster for canceling the speed race-sport

Paralympic winner Anna-Lena Forster practiced harsh criticism after the cancellation of the speed races at the World Cup in Maribor. “We are simply horrified, sad and speechless how it all works,” said the gold favorite in the Monoski Sports information service: “It cannot be that we are still treated so neglected. I think we really deserve better. “It is” a stupid situation for all of us “.

The cancellation of the departure followed the deletion of the Super-G on Tuesday and the super combination, so from Saturday to Tuesday only the giant slalom and slalom competitions remain. There have been clear plus degrees in Maribor for a few weeks, only a narrow white band runs in the middle of the forests of the Bachern Mountains towards the valley. The largest ski area of ​​Slovenia only protrudes up to 1000 meters above sea level.

“Many of us athletes across all nations make this professionally,” Forster continued: “We meticulously prepare for it, take a lot of money on us. Then something like this happens and one forgetted it to a place where it was foreseeable that speed disciplines are hardly possible because the past few years have hardly been snow. ” Not to be understood “that you do not work more forward and fis para snow sport works with FIS para alpine”. She recognizes a “step back” in the treatment of parasport: “Something has to happen in the future. We can no longer put up with that. ”Forster hopes for many targeted discussions for the next few weeks and months.