Marc Gisin is on the jump, feet high on the slope, but the Position is wrong. The skiers, it twisted in the air, he slams the full force of it on the pimple hard slopes, slipping on the snow and remains motionless on the runway edge.

What sounds like a description of the terrible fall of Marc Gisin on Saturday in Val Gardena, however, happened almost four years ago in Kitzbühel Super-G. The affected driver was the same. 23. January 2015 it happened at the legendary house mountain edge. The terrible diagnosis for Marc Gisin at the time: skull-brain Trauma.

It was a long time of suffering for the Speed driver, including symptoms of Exhaustion and sleep disorders was followed by a post-traumatic stress disorder. The time after Marc’s fall was for the whole family hard. Also for the two sisters. Michelle, the younger of the Two, repeated this year, a combination of Gold, in South Korea, and also departs this Winter, on top of the world. Sister Dominique finished her career already. You was 2014 downhill Olympic winner in Sochi. Like her brother she also had setbacks in your career with bad injuries and return to fight.

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the two sisters are currently suffering, evidence from a double-Interview with the “Sunday newspaper” from the beginning of December guess. “Then I see this helicopter message, I was completely boggled.” So Michelle Gisin describes the Moment, as she followed in 2015, the race, and thus the overthrow of her brother in Kitzbühel on the mobile App. Also, your sister can still remember to well the day: “I called in 27 people, no one fell in the target area of Kitzbühel, they don’t hear the phone. I am almost crazy.”

Bea Gisin, the mother of the three Ski-professionals, can pursue at home, in Engelberg, there is the race of the children. Michelle told her mother “about 20 meters” distance from the TV increases, and then, “with a quarter of an eye on five square inches of the screen”. The mother at the track, it was going better, but at home suffer, says Dominique.

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The risks in the Speed disciplines, the Gisin sisters, of course, and yet the love for skiing is bigger than the fear. the Dominique Gisin brings it to the point: “I’m not in love with skiing because it is so dangerous, but still.”

A year after his crash in Kitzbuehel, Marc Gisin celebrated just there for his best career result: 5th place in the downhill at the Hahnenkamm. This success he repeated yet again this year. It is to be hoped that Marc Gisin such a Comeback will also be in Val Gardena.

For Michelle Gisin the next world Cup are already on Tuesday and Wednesday, races on the calendar. A downhill and a Super G. The venue? Val Gardena. The Piste? Saslong. So on the slopes, on the her brother on Saturday and crashed so hard. If you will be riding the race really the best, is still open, said her friend Luca De Aliprandini on Sunday.

More to the diagnosis of the injured Marc Gisins you can find here. (tzi)

Created: 16.12.2018, 17:46 PM