“My opinion is clear: here they don’t know how to prepare a track. They’ve been preparing it for forty years but they don’t know how to do anything at all except dangerous things. » Rest assured, Nils Allègre’s interview on Eurosport will be a landmark in the world of alpine skiing.
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In the wake of the serious falls this Friday morning at the training of the Italian Pietro Zazzi and Cyprien Sarrazin (both helicoptered), the latter’s teammate in the French team took out the sulphate when commenting on the quality of the descent from Bormio (Italy).
“It’s not respectful for us, the athletes”
Fourth in the previous descent in Val Gardena (Italy), the skier from Serre-Chevalier did not stop there: “I love the descent, I like it when there is commitment, speed and big jumps like in Kitzbühel, where the descent is well prepared and spectacular. It’s just dangerous here.”
Nils Allègre does not hesitate to follow up with his strong criticism: “It’s not respectful for us, the athletes. We arrive here for the first training, it’s already smashed. We have to brake. We don’t all have the same opinion, I have mine, it is clear-cut and I accept it completely. » No doubt about it when we see the determined look of the 30-year-old athlete when cutting the Bormio orga.
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If he assures that he will be at the start of the event on Saturday (we almost doubted it given his projection) and that he “assumes the risks”, our Nils lets out a final pique. “One year away from organizing the Olympic Games, doing a track like that… They don’t deserve to have the Olympics here,” he believes. Game over.
