Colturi joined the Red Bull multi-kulti team actually    who wears Red Bull Hellera in Winter sports these days as well?

Ceccarelli wanted to take money from the federation and train daughter in her team. The federation didn`t want to agree to this, because we are talking about a 16-year-old girl at the time. Private teams have stars with recognized achievements, e.g. Brignone or Goggia (they also trained in junior teams at the age of 16). In my opinion, Ceccarelli could have collected money from private funds, after all, with such successes of her daughter it wouldn`t be a problem. Tina Maze also separated from Slovenia at some point and created her own team. In a situation in which Colturi would start to achieve successes, then the federation should start to finance her team more + private sponsors. For me it`s simple.

I think that It's a similar situation with Braahten in Norway but there are some differences:     - he's an adult, - his mother is Brazilian, - Norway has a lot of talent in technical events (although of course it's always better to have 1 more than 1 less).

Looks like the gate malfunctioned and Eriksen Sundal was literally pushed by the ad board    

Well, we lived through Caroline Wozniacki representing Denmark and there was some talk if she could switch to Poland early on but she said no since she lived her entire life in Denmark anyway. But she was very popular here. On the other side Angelique Kerber who also has Polish ancestry actually lived in Poland on her grandfather's estate (which was a tennis academy). In the last few years except Eugenia Bujak (cycling) switching to Slovenia due to a conflict with the federation we don't really have such cases. I can understand many Italians have their opinion on Colturi & her mother alas it's boosted by the lack of other top end prospects in your skiing now (and some other winter sports). I'm surprised Italian journalists haven't figured out what's behind Colturi's switch already because it has to be money or "personal differences" either way.

Or is Girardelli respected in Austria these days...

We must ask our Austrian users if they cheered for Girardelii. But do we have any Austrian users LOL?

It's just that Austria had a lot of skiers in that time and we don't have any others among the young ones now.

Marco Girardelli went to Luxembourg one day and he had a great career. I doubt he did regret that move.

DAY 3 events   14. SPEED SKATING - W 1000m   1. Miho Takagi JPN 2. Brittany Bowe USA 3. Jutta Leerdam NED   15. SNOWBOARD - W Big Air   1. Kokomo Nagase JPN 2. Anna Gasser AUT 3. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott NZL   16. FREESTYLE SKIING - W Freeski Slopestyle   1. Tess Ledeux FRA 2. Mathilde Gremaud SUI 3. Eileen Gu CHN   17. ALPINE SKIING - M Team Combined   1. Marco Odermatt, Loic Meillard SUI 2. Cyprien Sarrazin, Clement Noel FRA 3. Vincenr Kriechmayr, Manuel Feller AUT   18. SKI JUMPING - M Normal Hill Individual   1. Andreas Wellinger GER 2. Stefan Kraft AUT 3. Jan Hoerl AUT