This week­end the win­ter starts with a full pro­gram for the first time — and chaos threat­ens imme­di­ate­ly: Coro­na does not stop at the celebri­ties on skis. Sev­er­al stars are already in quar­an­tine. Mean­while, nobody is assum­ing a “nor­mal” win­ter. Austria’s ski jump­ing stars around Gre­gor Schlieren­za­uer are going to quar­an­tine instead of start­ing, Norway’s cross-coun­try skiers hiked in iso­la­tion short­ly before the start of the World Cup after a “false pos­i­tive” test, and the virus is also rag­ing among biath­letes and in the alpine ski cir­cus. The sea­son has bare­ly start­ed, and win­ter sports are already in a coro­na stran­gle­hold. On the first week­end in full oper­a­tion, chaot­ic con­di­tions threat­en. “It would be naive to believe that all win­ter sports and also Ger­man sport can get through the win­ter with­out a pos­i­tive test,” said Ste­fan Schwarzbach, Head of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion at the Ger­man Ski Asso­ci­a­tion (DSV). “We have been repeat­ing for months like a Tibetan prayer wheel that this will not be a nor­mal winter.”

Take ski jump­ing, for exam­ple: After the World Cup kick-off in Wis­la, Poland last week­end, Austria’s World Cup record win­ner Schlieren­za­uer, team­mate Philipp Aschen­wald and train­er Andreas Wid­höl­zl test­ed pos­i­tive — “despite com­pli­ance with all safe­ty mea­sures”, as the ÖSV has­tened to report. The Russ­ian Mikhail Max­i­motschkin was also pos­i­tive in Wis­la. Aus­tri­ans and Rus­sians went into quar­an­tine, they are miss­ing from the sec­ond sta­tion in Kuusamo. How­ev­er, the ski jumpers in par­tic­u­lar are more or less hang­ing on each oth­er in the stuffy div­ing tow­ers — a chain infec­tion remains a very pos­si­ble scenario.

Ex-super­star test­ed pos­i­tive Austria’s ski jumpers end­ed up in isolation

Take alpine ski­ing as an exam­ple: Aus­tria was hit here too. Before the par­al­lel giant slalom in Lech, Chiara Mair, who test­ed pos­i­tive, had to be “imme­di­ate­ly quar­an­tined”. This had no effect on the rest of the team. How­ev­er, it is unthink­able that nei­ther of them had any con­tact with oth­er ÖSV staff — con­sis­tent­ly there is anoth­er way. Take biathlon as an exam­ple: two days before the start of the sea­son in Kon­ti­o­lahti, the FIS World Fed­er­a­tion announced that mem­bers of the teams from Rus­sia, France, Roma­nia, Moldo­va and Latvia had test­ed pos­i­tive and had been iso­lat­ed. The Finnish health author­i­ties have to decide on fur­ther con­se­quences. Exam­ple cross-coun­try ski­ing: One day before the first World Cup race in Kuusamo, the entire team of the top nation Nor­way had to go into quar­an­tine after men’s train­er Eirik Myhr Nos­sum test­ed pos­i­tive for Coro­na on site. A sec­ond test reversed the result, the Olympic cham­pi­ons Therese Johaug and Johannes Hös­flot Klae­bo were stripped of the insu­la­tion — but it was not pos­si­ble to pre­pare prop­er­ly for the com­pe­ti­tion. “Nor­way is the heart of cross-coun­try ski­ing. It would­n’t be nice to start with­out it,” said Pierre Mignerey, head of cross-coun­try ski­ing at the FIS, who was bare­ly spared this sce­nario for the time being.

The Fis had pre­vi­ous­ly had to put up with warm words from the Ger­man nation­al cross-coun­try train­er Peter Schlick­en­rieder. Rea­son for the crit­i­cism: The first six sta­tions are in five dif­fer­ent coun­tries — a com­plete­ly avoid­able risk of trav­el in pan­dem­ic times. “There has been a long dis­cus­sion about merg­ing the World Cup venues, think­ing more sus­tain­ably, reduc­ing risks. Now we’re fly­ing back and forth, from Swe­den to Fin­land to Swe­den. That could have been avoid­ed,” said Schlick­en­rieder, refer­ring to the exam­ple of biathlon, where the cal­en­dar was purged, the three orga­niz­ers each host two World Cups in a row by the end of the year. “Mud­dling through” is how Schlick­en­rieder called the Fis approach. The pre­vi­ous approach of the win­ter sports divi­sions in the Coro­na sea­son also sounds like “mud­dling through”. Whether this, well: “con­cept” up to the big high­lights late in win­ter — the Alpine World Cham­pi­onships in Corti­na (from Feb­ru­ary 9th), the Biathlon World Cham­pi­onships in Poklju­ka (from Feb­ru­ary 10th) and the Nordic World Cham­pi­onships in Ober­st­dorf (from Feb­ru­ary 9th) Feb­ru­ary 23) — Suc­cess can be doubted.

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