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Just weeks after Cavagnoud's death, Silvano Beltrametti lost control at 120 km/h and sliced through the orange Kevlar netting that bordered the run in an especially violent crash during the season's opening World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isère. His spine was broken between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, leaving the 22-year-old Swiss skier paralyzed from the waist down. Beltrametti recently told a press conference: "I lived for skiing, 24 hours a day, but that time is behind me now. In a second all my dreams, goals and visions came to nothing...
...netting, breaking his pelvis and causing massive internal injuries. The sport's ruling body, the International Ski Federation (FIS) - which constantly monitors developments in equipment technology - sets rules for skis and boots, but not for safety equipment. "The fis is not an institute that could start making crash tests of the nets," says Sonja Reichen, World Cup assistant at the FIS. "You would need approved official institutes to do that." The FIS prefers to rely on net manufacturers' product-liability, because, Reichen says, "it is in the producers' interests that they have good material...
...still they crash. Austria's Hannes Trinkl, who suffered a cracked skull and a concussion in training at Schladming in November, recovered to take second place to the season's top downhiller Stephan Eberharter at Wengen in January. Third in that race was Josef Strobl, who fell in training for the next race, tearing knee ligaments and putting him out of action for six months. Robert Brunner, agent for a number of top Austrian skiers, is, like the racers, philosophical about the dangers. "There is a risk every racer takes when he goes downhill," he says. "They go very fast...
...Junior Championship. Since then, her skating has been inconsisent. Bursts of brilliance - a 3000-m bronze at Nagano, a 1500-m gold at the '98 Worlds, the 2000 European all-around title - were matched by disappointment, such as back problems that sidelined her for much of 1999 and a crash at the 2001 European championships in which she hurt her neck and her knee...
...three other crash victims—Lee S. Chung ’04 of Mather House, Faith Chyou ’03 of Adams House and Jerry Y. Lee ’04 of Winthrop House—were transported to Exeter (N.H.) Hospital with less serious injuries...