At the world Cup of the Nordic combined, a Springer loses his Ski in a fall. The TV expert Martin Schmitt is almost hit – and the reaction of the organizers to be dissatisfied.

The world Cup Jumping of the Nordic combined have escaped the responsible for just a severe incident. The Estonian Kristjan Ilves, lost after a fall on Friday its Ski raced at high speed in the slopes on the Bergisel Schanze in Innsbruck, Austria. There, the Ski took off and shot through a catch fence in the moderation places of the TV-journalists. The former ski jumper Martin Schmitt said in the ORF: “The moderation space and it was free. I was fortunately next door, about two meters away from the skiing.”

The Nordic combined competition was then interrupted for more than 20 minutes. Helpers worked on the fishing network. Fis race Director Lasse Ottesen was previously reported, the Ski had flown over the network. “With a lot of speed. I’ve made a big, luckily. You do not see a Ski come in the Moment the Ski is already through the net shot and the rear bashed in,” said Schmitt, who is at the world Cup in Tirol for the channel Eurosport.

The former ski jumpers criticized the organizers then sharp. “The real scandal, and you have to name it so, is that you do not respond and the network has just hanged alibi moderately higher and looser. And then hopes that the next Springer, if this should happen again, the Ski is caught in it,” said Schmitt at Eurosport.

The 41-Year-old made a clear appeal to the organizers at the Bergisel in Innsbruck, where after the steep discharge a counter-slope. “A major warning shot, there can be actually, and you have to take action. If you want to carry out the Competition, you have to rooms, the Mixed Zone and for the protection of the athletes find a different way,” said Schmitt. He attested to the world Ski Federation Fis a “bad race management”.