{"id":470600,"date":"2025-09-15T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=470600"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:15:26","slug":"skier-dead-at-25-months-before-home-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=470600","title":{"rendered":"Skier dead at 25, months before home Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian skier Matteo Franzoso has died following a crash in pre-season training in Chile, the Italian Winter Sports Federation announced. He was 25.<\/p>\n

He's the second elite Italian skier to die in less than a year, after Matilde Lorenzi in October 2024.<\/p>\n

Franzoso suffered \u201ca major head injury\u201d on Saturday and was being treated at a hospital in Santiago.<\/p>\n

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The federation, FISI, said it was informed by medical officials in Chile of the skier\u2019s death, adding he did not survive \u201ccranial trauma\u201d and a consequent swelling of his brain.<\/p>\n

Franzoso won a super-G race on the second-tier Europa Cup circuit in 2021, having finished fourth in the downhill at the world junior championships in 2020.<\/p>\n

\"Italy's<\/p>\n

He competed in 17 World Cup races \u2014 11 super-Gs and six downhills. His best World Cup result was 28th in a super-G in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo in January 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy for his family and for our sport,\u201d FISI president Flavio Roda said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely necessary to do everything possible so accidents like this don\u2019t happen anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

His death comes barely five months before the Winter Olympics is held in Italy.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Franzoso crashed through two layers of safety fencing on a course at La Parva and slammed into another type of fence positioned six to seven metres outside the course, FISI said. He was transported by helicopter to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Franzoso was training with Italian team standouts Dominik Paris, Christof Innerhofer, Mattia Casse and others. The Azzurri are preparing to race on home snow at the Milan-Cortina Olympics in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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