Swiss skier Urs Kryenbuehl crashes across finish line at Kitzbuhel downhill
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- Switzerland's Urs Kryenbuehl crashed at the finish line of the men's World Cup downhill in Kitzbuhel, Austria on Friday, January 22, 2021 and had to be removed by helicopter. The 26-year-old man from Schwyz suffered a concussion, a broken collarbone and torn internal and cruciate ligaments in his right knee.
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It's now 10 months later, and he just finished his first world cup race after this horrible crash safely.
Not the fall. The silence after the fall. That's an impact. Every single time.
Lenka silence...There isn’t anyone thereto make noise..
@@TopSecretVid too much logic in your reply. You will understand one day.
the fact that the "crowd noises" have been digitally added due to the race being held with no fans makes the "silence" part quite artificial.
5:19 the way that helicopter rope was twisting around i think he may have wanted to stay on the ground
@@14Lenka11 Well he ain't wrong in the sense that this year, because of Covid, no audience members were allowed, the only people at the finish line are other skiers and teams plus officials and slope helpers, medics. The applause that was heard was played from the speakers and as you could hear, someone actually physically pressed the 'stop' button after the crash, I guess in order not to make it disrespectful. While I have no doubt out of those at the finish line everyone gasped and held their breath in shock, we couldn't actually hear their magnitude of 'applause to silence'. It was the artificial/playback applause into the real silence.
Snow=10%, Ice=90%, that's a death sentence for anyone downhill'ing
Incredible medical team! From crash to being helicoptered in a few minutes, brilliant
👌👌👌👏👏👏
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For anyone that's never been on a ski/board holiday, just falling over on the snow at 20mph can hurt!
That’s a fact!
And thats ice not snow🤕😉
@Pennington J Knickernacker are you gatekeeping falling over...
@@alexhaworth757 No, on the contrary, ice hurts more than snow.
@@joshuaharrell554 sorry, the guy I was replying to was saying something stupid, so It looks silly out of place
For anyone wondering what Beat Feuz in the leaderbox was saying:
2:17 "Did the wind resistance rotate him" (Not literal translation but that's what he meant)
2:22 "Come on guys, hurry up, get to him!"
2:28 "Ah he's moving"
2:38 "Stay put" (addressing Kryenbühl, urging him to just stay put for the moment)
2:47 Discussing how easy it is to just be rotated by the wind resistance on that jump
Beat ist wirklich ein netter Kerl er hat sich den Doppelpack verdient
Not correct,, he's talking about he did'nt see what happened because he had his eyes on the timing machine
@@christianmartinek2843 It starts out with what I said, but then continues with what you are saying, correct.
He was going down with such great style! It was scary to see him lose control in his last jump. Looks like he tried to correct.
I hope he can recover soon.
he recovered pretty well and will race on the highest level this season :)
Folks who have never experienced these speeds have no idea the strength and athleticism it takes to overcome the forces involved in this crash. One reason I place Lindsey Vonn as one of the 3 greatest alpine racers of all time - men or women.
Good call!
Can't be compared to men tho. That's a different ball game.
@@willemgroen7546 It can and I did lol.
@@mrsmartypants_1 Ofc you can, it just doesn't make sense.
@@llerias6727 in this case it does, as he was referencing being able to recover from a crash, and gender doesn't decide how well you do that
May he heal up quickly & fully! My heart goes out to him & his family! That is why I ski bumps. God Bless!
Nothing can beat Bumps!
He starts again tonight :)
A lot of people don’t realize how devastating a crash on the ‘flat’ can be; your body is fighting gravity. You are literally being pulled into the hill.
Crashes on flat landing are the worst :(
The perverse upside of his crash is that he did technically finish the race, which of itself is considered an accomplishment on the most feared, dangerous downhill course in the world. Hope he recovers enough in body and spirit to return to ski racing next season.
He didn’t even get last place!!
If I'm not mistaken, you have to finish the race with all your equipment intact and I would imagine, on your feet.
Damn, what a blazing run until it looked like the air resistance caught the top of his skis and pulled him forward. His head neck took the brunt of that fall. I hope that the brain and neck injuries are not what they appear to be. Speedy recovery.
"Only" a concussion for the brain/ neck area
He was 1.8 seconds off the leader pace.
@@SomeTechGuy666 Yeah, at high level that's along time. To anyone outside of the very top tier in the world, that's a blazing pace. It's perspective, but I stand by it.
@@SomeTechGuy666 on a course like that for downhill,that can still be in the top 10 in the world. Normal people would be down in 10 minutes or so after him still
Wow, 140+ km/h crash. That is insane
146+ km/h
Yeh, 146++, probs around 150 as it stopped the record just before he jumped, insane.
I've even watched the Hahnenkamm-Race live on TV! The Moment, after I saw his crash happen, there were a few things, that straight went through my head, like "Is he okay" "Has anything pretty serious happened to him" and "I hope, he'll get well again as quick as possible" But as I saw him sit up for a moment or two, then lay down again, I was being calmed at least a little bit... I was so happy to see Urs being brought to the nearest hospital
Someone moving right after a heavy crash does not mean much.
That’s not skiing, by the amount of ice that’s there it might as well be ice skating
Wow, it was icy.
@@SomeTechGuy666 yeah you could hear it all the way down
They spray water on courses to firm them up.
@@thingserik7269 cool i didnt know that
If it werent ice it would be much more dangerous. Inconsistent underground provokes crashes way more
Жаль парня. Прямо перед финишем.
Вот это уровень оказания помощи...
Да. Через 10 мин. после падения будет в больнице.
Да . Это не наша Раша
Не чего хорошего жаль парня
@@irinamikhailova_фу...
Wow the chopper is flying while 3 men hanging below .....ice cold rescue guys ....hope for urs to recover speedy .
There he is, possibly bleeding out from a severed artery and nobody has a plan to respond. But the rescue people sure look great, wherever they are.
Wow ... Concussion, Collar bone and ACL ... So sad, and what a great run otherwise ... Speedy recovery ... best of luck. Most crucial in early stages is to treat the concussion.
Fingers crossed!
Он хоть живой? Даже лыжи сломались, это как же его так жестко еще и на плоскач. Восстановления ему полного, что еще можно пожелать то.
ну конечно живой, это хоть и австроия но даже там не повезут на кладбище на вертолете
Screw all the other sports, these guys are insane!
He had magnificent speed on a very icy run, I could hear the ice scraping as he skied, sure hope he will be OK, he fell hard.
The best for him and what a good medical team thumbs up with respect
He was skiing today(23.1.2022.) at Kitzbuhel downhill and he did it great, nice job.
I don't know if y'all understand how insane it is to be going 130+km/h outside of a vehicle... And then flying and having to stay perfectly balanced. One slight miscue with the tips of your skis too high and you're going over backwards. Too far forwards and this happens.
Fastest I've gone is 90km/h and I was truly terrified.
Dieser Crash hat wirklich übel ausgeschaut, sowas möchte man selbst nicht erleben. Alles Gute dem Sportler.
I hope he his doing well in the next years. I think we will hear a lot of him soon. He is a legend like all others who started on the Streif
Anyone who watched the race could see that a lot of racers had problems on the last jump, including Beat Feuz.
I would direct you to a certain personage in the organisation who's name I will not say here, who insists this final jump only gets bigger and has 'aledgedly' been overheard to say 'if they can't jump it then they can't ski'...
Yeah Beat Feuz says that himself in this very video
@@eugenechester8748 this person is Stupid! Cause to the end all skiers are extremly tired and this person put the athlets in extremly danger! BAD!
I'd had never realized the extreme dangerousness of supergee until I got back on my ski again and went to the Italian Alps.. Once you realize how dangerous this can be on those steep slopes even for a recreational skier at very low speeds and then you see those daredevil riding such slopes designed to push the limits, with their speed well over 100km.h on an icy, uneven surface, fighting with high G-forces, then you realize how much nuts this kind of sport is.. Each fall on the Streif slope can mean the end of the skiers carrier and disability for the rest of their life..
Increïble how fast they go! All best to this talented unlucky man.
There was a small mistake I think at around 1:41, prior to the horrible accident. I am a total amateur in ski and I know that muscles can give up anytime...brain is still working but muscles cannot do what I want if they are tired. I hope he will recover soon!!
Un bon , rapide et complet rétablissez à toi Urs
On espère te revoir vite à ton meilleur niveau
Patience, on est avec toi...
Concussion is a word often used to describe a wide ranging spectrum of brain injuries. Let's hope its a minor 'brain injury.'
Agreed!
Надеюсь все с ним хорошо
не совсем, ты что не заметил как он загрустил когда понял что лыжи сломал?
I hope he has survived that and wishes him well. Regards from 🇫🇯
Yes he did. He made his first race after that crash some days ago
@@MrQsu thanks for the update
the exact opposite of what happened to chad fleisher in the 90's at the same spot.
What was he's final time? He did cross the finish line. Or was he too low to stop the clock?
Прям на финише упал и скорость 146+ км/ч. Ужас! Я в шоке! Надеюсь парень жив и скоро поправится.
Tous mes vœux de rétablissement à ce champion.
gutted - brilliant run
Scott Russell, I thought your call of his crash was pretty insensitive, referring to it as a "yard sale". That crash was horrific. Yard sale is a joke term and inappropriate in this context.
The racers had been commenting earlier in the week about the last roll being too large ~ they were getting 80 meters of air. Course officials did nothing.
they did something after the 1st training as well as after thr 2nd training, but they couldn antizipate that the speed would get that high on race day
Course officials trimmed down the last jump before the race. So in that regard u are incorrect.
@@slyferxxs828 the racers still flew way too far on friday
@@distortimus7631 true, doesnt make the statement "course officials did nothing" from the original poster true tho
The have to plan and do it, you cant just change it in just 3 days
Kitz is always somothink special and my biggest dream, is to be there on a race one day
The track was made with a mistake ( at the very end the speed was over 140 km.) while the whole was about 100 km. An hour later, a 26-year-old man from Schwyz suffered a concussion, a broken collarbone and a torn internal and cruciate ligament in his right knee
It doesn't look like there is enough of of the course left over to slowdown after the last jump
Nobody wants to see such a massive jump towards the finish especially when nobody is there. That was stupid and irresponsible by the OK.
Please take care
Whats the lap time?
Downhill and professional skiing in general has Murphy's Law written all over it.
With crashes, but also with terrible wear and tear of the knees.
I think I am not exaggerating when I say professional skiing is dangerous.
God bless.
Downhill, super G and giant slalom are ordinary ski trip on mountains but inside course lines highly risky if you fall you're screwed.
Dieser Sturz war absolut nicht zwingend.Seine Position beim und vor dem Sprung war ideal.
Back in the day there were no helicopter. No groomed hard consistent "highway slopes" and the ski equipment was weak and unstable compared to today. The skis were not as flexible and the boots not as stiff, nor was the bindings as safe as today. If you watch Kitzbuhel races from the 70's and early to mid 80's more racers crashed than completed the race. Downhill skiing has become much safer.
Tough to crash that close to the finish. Hoping for a speedy recovery.
As sad as it is but seeing the listed injuries makes me believe that that man's career is over...most athletes don't fully recover from band ruptures and all that stuff...and especially not at his age. Sad story if you think about all this effort and training he put in to reach this level, but who knows, maybe we will see him back on the slopes soon
wtf who cares about the finish in a crash like this. In a crash that ends your season and could end your career, finish is the least thing that matters
Same spot as Daniel Albrecht in 2009 :(
Yeah but they reduced a lot the jump after his fall.
I wonder why the bindings to the Ski on the right side does not let go. :S
Is it because the track was so hard and bumpy?
Hope he recovered does anyone know?
Is the FIS waiting for another death before slowing down the course a little bit? Almost 150 km/h is surely spectacular but at the detriment of the athletes...
Agreed. 😟
Its not gonna take long untile we see the next death.
the dark side of red bull
its what they live and train for he just miscalculated his pre jump
@@dav171270 Yeah but you still need to protect their lifes!
amazing performance,,I pray the god speedy recovery.
That last jump was just useless
Thats Kitzbühel... new year, same discussion...
thats what downhill is all about big jumps and big speed
I agree, way too much speed for the landing.
The speed on that specific day on the jump was more than 5km/h more than the days before or the race day after. That just makes a huge difference in air time. And they already took away of the jump the night before. But someone always has to be the blame.
That's why they call this break neck speeds come with territory .
Да,он же прям головой тормозил.
Concrete landing , snapped his ski !
There’s always this possibility when you ‘play with fire’ we will all fall whilst skiing. At 87 miles is definitely asking for more trouble, and even with his excellent skills, it’s a possibility. He’s going very well now.
At 147 km per h, you got The balls to make that jump.
at 147 you have no other choice, you are hurled into the jump
When these things happen: Don't other athletes think like maybe I should quit this sport? It looks so dangerous, every race I'm watching is like extreme adrenaline, only from watching. It's a miracle that nobody died since 1994.
A quote the late Formula I driver James Hunt probably works for this too - "There's a lie all drivers tell themselves, 'death is something that happens to other people'; it the only way you get the courage to get in the car. But even greater than fear itself, is the will to win."
@@teecee4574 Probably after reading a bit I guess its the professional athletes will to win and maybe even some kind of adrenaline addiction. They describe it as an unbelievable feeling to ski down these mountains. It is also said that fast and risky car driving is also a thing among ski racers. They might love and want more of this powerful feeling of adrenaline and all the other hormones being released.
To me downhill skiers are the toughest sportsatlethes in the whole world. Yes, they try to make this sport safer at any chance, but when ever an accident occurs the reality is that your body has to take the force of stopping from 90kmh- 145kmh within seconds. Broken bones, career ending injurys and even death are always a part of it.
@@VersusTim toughest and probably most crazy ones lol
yes believe me many only get back in the starting gate trying to convince themselves its ok to do it. once on the race track all thoughts are extinguished and all your training race training are engaged and your focus is only what you see ahead your heart and adrenaline are at maximum + and your hearing is subdued almost completely and it goes into what feels like slow motion and suddenly your at the finish hopefully...... you as a person are in a altered reality once you push out of that starting gate at this level of competition.
was he alright after ??
What silence after the inpact! He is on the snow and he seems ...😔😔😣😣
Beat du besch e rechtige ski kolleg du hesch der so sorge gmacht
Beat Feuz ist scheiße wie die ganze Schweiz
@@leopolddermadchenmagnet8799 hahah halts Maul
The best part of this is the airhorn way after its clear he's down.
RIP
He knew instantly as he went off the roller that he was screwed. Nothing you can do when you are too far forward off a jump. Terrible way to fall.
What’s with the soundtrack?
Sounds like they're filling in some crowd sounds to enhance the experience.
@@CBCSports austrian tv viewers could download an app and make sounds by pressing buttons which were then played in the finishing area to compensate for no fans at the event.
Any word on his condition?
concussion, break of collarbone, inner & cruciate ligament tear in left knee
@@thaamatthi1488 incredible it wasn't worse
@@thaamatthi1488 No surprise. That was a wickedly hard crash... fwiw, both skis were destroyed....
@@mattthompson9395 yep, its a miracle that he hasnt severe head and back injuries, thank god
@@thaamatthi1488 terrible!
Does it qualify for a finish?
It does apparently.
he didn't miss any gates and passed the finish line. obviously he lost a lot of time, but he was ranked 25/30 (with 2 dropping out of the race)
Glad so many rushed out to check on him so fast!! WTF?
That looked shockingly Icy
Вот это жесть полная на 146 км/ч! Подскажите кто вкурсе, он живой остался???
Сотрясение мозга, перелом правой ключицы, разрыв связок правого колена; был в сознании во время транспорта!!
"Nach Angaben des Schweizer Skiverbandes Swiss Ski erlitt der 26-Jährige neben einer Gehirnerschütterung und einem Bruch des rechten Schlüsselbeins auch einen Riss des Kreuz- und Innenbandes im rechten Knie. Kryenbühl hatte am Zielsprung bei Tempo 145 die Kontrolle verloren und war mit dem Kopf voraus auf die Piste geprallt. Er verlor das Bewusstsein, war beim Abtransport mit einem Helikopter allerdings ansprechbar und bei klarem Verstand"
@@harrymuller1571 благодарю, должен выжить!
He was hit but a gust of wind from the back on the last jump, throwing him forward. He had no chance
No. He tipped his tips down too early. At 90mph, drag is a huge force on the skis. The air resistance pulled him forward. And there is no 90mph tailwind.
@@01nmuskier Nope. I watched this live in Europe dude. There were lots of wind gusts around the last jump. Many ski teams complained about this on Saturday and the FIS decided to reduce the height of the last jump on the second Downhill to make it safer and for skiers to be less time in the air and less prone to be pushed forward by the wind. Nothing to do with ski tips. wtf.
@@_pjd apparently you didn't see the interview. Which downhill events have you raced?
@@01nmuskier Whatever dude.
@@_pjd I have only hit a dh jump at 70mph and only went 40-50m. But I would bet 70m at 90mph is harder. What's your experience?
🙏🏻
Does it count as a finished race he did technically finish the race and it would be a shame if they didn't allow a completed race.
Yeah, he finished 25th or something
If im correct, you have to pass the finish line with atleast one ski on your foot. He passed it with no ski on his foot.
@@bastianrathgeber4880 No. He was classified 26th and got points. You don't need to cross the finish line with any ski, maybe the source of the confusion is cycling, where you do need to cross the line with the bike
the level of safety for downhill compétition is worthy of RAF pilots during second world war, unacceptable.
Noone has to ride
there is literally nearly nothing they could do to make it more safer nowadays. All skiers wear airbags. they have an three layers of fences in each spot. the piste is in perfect condition, they have always an helicopter at the spot to bring them as fast as possible in the next hospital and so on... You should watch this competition 30 years age where they only had like one wood fence in each curve. Its just a dangerous sport in general like motorsport or mma but from an organizer perspective you can't make this sport 100% safe.
@@e.s.1873 Yeah you are right, but only mot everyone uses the Airbag
he got a concussion, broken collarbone and knee cruciate ligaments. Looks almost like a miracle still I would be currious ro see if he can come back competitive after such an accident.
Absolutely true
Such a different scene. Normally there's well over 20,000 people watching at the finish line.
His mistake was a rapid movement on the hands backwards in the moment of the jump.
Sad...
saw his right leg was unstable at the middle of the run
2:16 oh im being filmed, time to act concerned!
is he alive?
Yes
poor guy
Ну,пожалейте своих близких! Зачем вам большой спорт?! Не рискуйте жизнью!!!
Эгоисты.
Живут так, как будто никогда не умрут.
А умирают так, как будто никогда и не жили.☝️😢
IS HE OKAY???💔
He is. "Kryenbühl suffered a concussion in his fall, broke his right collarbone and tore his cruciate and inner ligament in his right knee... An injury to the spine was not diagnosed." - World Today News
Anybody knows how is he?
He is recovering. Already skiing again. Not racing yet though
@@83Vonarx thanks a lot!
There should be a system similar to F1, where at any part of the track, you can have professionals at the scene within 10 seconds.
😢
Что с ним в итоге
Порваны связки,перелом ключицы
That's mostly ice making the fall even worster and harder..
I traveled the Kitzbühel Downhill Run SLOWLY in my thirties (1980-someting) and being an average-accomplished non-competition skier I decided it was sheer madness. While extreme sports like F1 have been improving their safety record, sports like Downhill Skiing still seem quite medieval and brutal.
Кто знает как он !?
Ключица сломана. Травма головы.
5:19 the way that helicopter rope was twisting around i think he may have wanted to stay on the ground
No, that happens every time
Btw look at how shiny that top section of the track looks, that's just pure ice they skiing on
Well it needs to be, otherwise it wouldn't be a fair race.
between 5:10sec and 5:20sec, the bloke is kjust laying on the ground and no one rushes to help him?? are u serious??? ten seconds is a long time in incidences like this
my guy pulled an opposite Chad Fleischer
or daniel albrecht
Facts
More like scot McCartney. He got spun around
@@distortimus7631 That was another horrible crash. So glad Scott recovered.
Can't see @ 87 MPH - Where's the slow-mo ?
Watch vid at 0,25 speed
the stated speed is 146 km per hr. the>>>>>>>>> fastest speed