tcsa (25 août 2011) disait:
Stug (25 août 2011) disait:
Radio canada
La Fédération internationale de ski (FIS) a annoncé mercredi l'adoption d'une nouvelle règle qui obligera les skieurs alpins à porter de plus longs skis pour prévenir les blessures graves.
Si ce n'est que ça, il y a aussi d'autres pistes à explorer: le traitement de la piste, le tracé, etc.
Quand tu vois les tracés de descente et le traitement de la piste que certains organisateurs massacrent pour "conserver le mythe", je crois qu'on se fout réellement de la santé du sportif. Et quand Paquin (de mémoire ) dit "arriver en bas c'est déjà une victoire", on est pas si loin des jeux du cirque...
A souhaiter que le procès fou que Lanziger intente à la Fis fassee tomber des habitudes...
Petit article du NY Times qui va dans ton sens ...
Par contre, la "sécurité" en geant .. je n'en ai jaamis fait, mais il me semble que ce n'est pas dangereux en terme de vie humaine, il em semble qu'ils visent plus la protection des genoux des skieurs plus que le reste ... La je me dis que dans un sens ils ont raison, c'est bien le ski qui est le facteur principal pour proteger les genoux ... ou alors, ecarter les portes ..
New rules announced last month by the International Ski Federation prompted such harsh criticism from skiers, coaches and manufacturers that a meeting is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss them.
The rules, which focus exclusively on equipment and will be put in place for the 2012 Alpine World Cup season, have lately taken the most criticism from the athletes they were designed to protect. One skier, the Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety, recently wrote a post on his Web site titled, “My thoughts on FIS’s attempt to ruin GS.”
GS would be giant slalom, Ligety’s specialty, an event he would like to remain unchanged. He wrote that he recently tested the required new skis, which cannot have a radius smaller than 40 meters, or 131.2 feet. The old regulations had a 27-meter, or 88.5-foot, limit, a radius restriction changed little after the 1980s, when skis with the larger radius were the norm.
The longer skis in effect will change techniques and make the skiers less aggressive in their turns.
Of the 40-meter radius skis, Ligety wrote, “Wave goodbye to the sport’s progression of arcing the cleanest possible turns.”
Six years ago, the skiing federation commissioned a study on athlete safety. All parties involved agreed on the importance of the subject. There was, however, a wide variety of opinions on how to make the sport safer.
Yet the results prompted a harsher and louder reaction than expected, particularly in regard to giant slalom. The proposed changes included longer minimum lengths for skis for men and women in downhill, giant slalom and super-G events, along with a larger radius minimum. A lower radius, skiers said, helps them make sharper turns.
The Ski Racing Suppliers Association represents ski manufacturers, and although officials said they agreed that changes in equipment must be put in place, they recently sent a letter to the skiing federation with concerns. Among them: the manufacturers did not have enough time to make the changes, the study had not been extensive enough and it did not address any change other than to equipment.
“They’re going too far,” said Jean-Pierre Morand, the general secretary of the suppliers association. “That’s the position of the industry. The equipment is one element in the global picture. They’re giving the impression that all the problem lies with the equipment. It’s like having a Formula One racer use the same car as a normal person.”
Those concerns were echoed by Patrick Riml, the Alpine director at the United States Ski and Snowboard Association. He said he worried about the financial impact on families of racers forced to buy new skis for an already expensive sport, or that the new radius limits would favor taller skiers or force others to radically change technique.
Mostly, he said he worried how the changes would affect the giant slalom, where the inherent danger remains part of the draw.
“The sport is really cool right now,” he said. “It’s aggressive. It’s spectacular. We don’t feel like we should just give that away. Of course everyone wants it to be safe.”
Scott Mathers, the training director at Alf Engen Ski School in Alta, Utah, has been involved in ski racing since 1974, as a participant, a coach and a parent. He said the most important aspects to racing safety were the course itself, the surface of the snow and the site and contour of the hill.
“They’re all so much more important than the skis,” he said. “This thing is beyond understanding. I made a list of 20-odd reasons why this is a bad idea, and I had one on the positive side.”
He is not alone. A survey at SkiRacing.com asked respondents what they thought of the regulations. By Tuesday evening, 81 percent had answered, “Big mistake.”
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