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.

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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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