Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2024 - 2025

[Monzanator 4,502]

28 minutes ago, copravolley said:

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.

 

Ok, so I guess federation didn't want to create special rules for a single athlete no matter how promising she is but overall they have mismanaged it more IMO. It's rather obvious any parent will always support their child first. I'm sure there could have been an agreement to return some loans in the future especially that those "private" contracts like Red Bull were always more probable to happen plus the entire exposure hype with the next WOG in Italy.

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2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Ok, so I guess federation didn't want to create special rules for a single athlete no matter how promising she is but overall they have mismanaged it more IMO. It's rather obvious any parent will always support their child first. I'm sure there could have been an agreement to return some loans in the future especially that those "private" contracts like Red Bull were always more probable to happen plus the entire exposure hype with the next WOG in Italy.

Yes, you are right. The fault lies on both sides in my opinion.

[Grassmarket 3,408]

13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Ok, so I guess federation didn't want to create special rules for a single athlete no matter how promising she is but overall they have mismanaged it more IMO. It's rather obvious any parent will always support their child first. I'm sure there could have been an agreement to return some loans in the future especially that those "private" contracts like Red Bull were always more probable to happen plus the entire exposure hype with the next WOG in Italy.

Seems to be quite common - like Estelle Alphond for  because her father fell out with 

[Olympian1010 7,973]

6 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

But do we have any Austrian users LOL?

Totallympics had  users at one point, but I haven't seen any hanging around in a while.

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17 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Totallympics had  users at one point, but I haven't seen any hanging around in a while.

There are few people here from Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Finland.

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5 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Seems to be quite common - like Estelle Alphond for  because her father fell out with 

Ok, but there we are talking about a person who has parents from different countries. Colturi has nothing to do with Albania.

[copravolley 265]

It may also be that Ceccerelli saw that the conditions in the Italian youth teams were very poor and that is why she insisted on setting up her own team (the results of young Italian skiers unfortunately confirm this). A private team will always be better than a team with 10-12 skiers with max. 3-4 coaches, a one doctor and a physiotherapist. Colturi is the only skier in her team and she has several coaches, a masseur, a doctor etc. Of course, it costs money, but since the parents are famous and have money + Red Bull got involved. I don't understand why she can't start for Italy again? Red Bull should care more that Colturi starts in Cortina under the Italian flag than the Albanian one + Red Bull, as a brand, always has a bigger sales market in Italy with a population of 60 million than in small Albania. I hope that this can still be reversed by next year. For this we need talks between the federation + Colturi's parents + Red Bull + possibly the Italian Olympic Committee. Colturi may be a skier equal to Brignone or even better in the future. We can't lose her, so we have to do now!

Edited 10 hours ago by copravolley

[Fly_like_a_don 1,090]

Such a nice one for Colturi ! That was fun. It almost looked like a script with the cameras focusing on Colturi a couple of times before her first run and showcasing the potential of youngster and she didn't disappoint. 

 

 

I hope Colturi skis for Albania forever. So much fun to cheer her with the Albanian flag. 

 

I don't get it why everyone is being so critical of Colturi, you got no right to criticize a personal decision, as most European nations use imported athletes in many sports like wrestling and cheer them on like their.

 

Would you spend hours criticizing Frank Chamizo for switching to Italy rather than playing for Cuba? 

[Faramir 365]

5 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Such a nice one for Colturi ! That was fun. It almost looked like a script with the cameras focusing on Colturi a couple of times before her first run and showcasing the potential of youngster and she didn't disappoint. 

 

 

I hope Colturi skis for Albania forever. So much fun to cheer her with the Albanian flag. 

 

I don't get it why everyone is being so critical of Colturi, you got no right to criticize a personal decision, as most European nations use imported athletes in many sports like wrestling and cheer them on like their.

 

Would you spend hours criticizing Frank Chamizo for switching to Italy rather than playing for Cuba? 

Nonsense. Chamizo moved to Italy, married an Italian, he's still here after many years and was essentially banned from competing for Cuba.

Colturi's tie to Albania is that the Albanian federation had invested a ton of money in her mother's business (élite and very costly academy for young skiers), and then gave her a role, and probably another big salary, as a director in exchange for the pomise of their first winter Olympic medal. A better comparison is to that archer who competed for Ivory Coast because her father had a big clothing business in the country.

[Faramir 365]

IMO the Italian federation was right in not giving to that financial and political blackmail - had they accepted it, plenty of more established athletes in snow sports could have asked for more under the threat of changing nationality. It's not like they had a sports almanac from the future saying that that 15yo girl would have won 5 olympic gold medals and 5 overall world cups.