140 km/h (93 mph) is one hell of a speed. In Switzerland you're only allowed to drive 120 on the highway. In Kitzbuhel in Austria the ski-professionals are racing up to 143 km/h on their skis. Kitzbuhel is the steepest downhill-ski-slope in the world, the fastest, and definitely one of the most difficult and dangerous. At that speed if things go wrong, they really go wrong. As Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht found out on Friday morning:
Listen to the commentary from the two Austrian journalists - you don't have to be fluent in German /Austrian to understand how shocked they were by the crash.
At the moment Daniel's in hospital in intensive care, kept in coma to prevent stress causing brain damage. As far as the doctors can say he'll survive, but they don't know about permanent injuries now. May he get well soon!
Just two days later the main race was held, won by another Swiss, Didier Defago, who just won the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen a week earlier.
Congratulations!
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