2024 has already had some of the biggest ski crashes in history. From downhill ski races out in Slovakia, Italy, France, and even the United States, ski racers are wiping out more than usual..

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  1. Speaking for The Patriarchy, can I just say, I can’t tell from watching which skiers are male or female!
    All I can say is that they each kick more ass on the slopes than I could ever imagine!

  2. this curve is mathematically not possible while taking speed into it, it even goes a little downhill so the skis cant get grip and you havce about 15 meters airtime before you can prepare the curve

  3. Hate to say it, but making the turns that fast to where many of these best Down Hill skiers in the whole wide world can not make that turn most of the time is just dead wrong and foolish by the slope designers. The slope designers couldn't even get down that designed slope the first 10 feet without busting their asses. These professional skiers make their livelihood doing this most dangerous sport. It's like a death wish by the slope designers just because they can't come close to skiing at this level. Should never design a turn this ridiculously made to purposely crash and damage these great Skiers.

  4. Part of the problem is the FIS scheduling, also the poor weather and bad snow conditions, but the injuries are occurring on courses set far to tight and with poor terrain consideration. Television coverage has begun impacting race safety because the FIS now sets so that the TV cameras get the best coverage, regardless of racer safety!

  5. Petra Vlhova was not racing a slalom course. I raced for 12 years and coached for another 5. Slalom has one gate per turn, no flag and you wear a face guard and poke guards to cross block the gates out of your way.

    Poor Petra, recover soon!

    For the AI that wrote this… Check yourself before you wreck yourself

  6. Shiffrin managed it perfectly. Assessed the situation, knew she was in trouble, hit the brakes and calculated the fall-slide. All at terrifying speed. Still a painful fall. The bad thing about high speed or high impact sports is that a few thousandths of a second or millimeters can cost you for the rest of your life. Or your whole life. But to excel, overcome and triumph at those risk levels….Thats also lifelong. Pros and Cons.
    Stay gold.

  7. Non-contact injuries are the worst. Even if you come back from them, you are never the same mentally, because in your head you're constantly thinking "if I push a bit harder, will something go wrong again?" and that's a very difficult mental block to overcome.

  8. There's always 2-3 very dangerous turns and it's beyond me why they don't implement greater safety features than the standard fencing in those locations. It's also insane how tight they have their skis locked to their boots – tumbling down the mountain end over end at 60 mph and they stay attached well past the strength of a ligament. There has got to be a happy medium for life and limb.

  9. Glad as I have always been a casual skier and as an instructor teach the same. See a lot of people trying to ski like these her e and end up even to and including the worst ever out comes. So people, your on a shared slope and not a closed course slow down observe the trail color codes and obey those codes…please ! To many people are getting hurt big time …

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