Franzoso suffered ‘major head trauma’ in accident
Lindsey Vonn: ‘This is incredibly sad … RIP Matteo’
The Italian skier Matteo Franzoso has died at the age of 25 following a crash during pre-season training in Chile at the weekend, his country’s winter sports federation (FISI) has confirmed.
After suffering “a major head trauma” in the accident at the La Parva track on Saturday, Franzoso was taken by helicopter to the intensive care unit of a clinic in Santiago and placed in an induced coma. The FISI confirmed on Monday that he did not recover after “cranial trauma” and a subsequent swelling of his brain.
“It is a tragedy for the family and for our sport,” the FISI president Flavio Roda said in a statement on Monday. “It is absolutely necessary to do everything possible to ensure that such episodes do not happen again.”
