{"id":19249,"date":"2025-09-16T00:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:04:03","slug":"italian-ski-racer-dies-in-chile-training-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19249","title":{"rendered":"Italian ski racer dies in Chile training accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Italian ski racer Matteo Franzoso died following an accident in Chile where he was training with his country&#8217;s Olympic team, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old skier was training on the upper part of La Parva Ski Resort, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital Santiago, when he fell on Saturday and suffered a serious head injury.<\/p>\n<p>The federation said Franzoso died in a Santiago clinic after the accident, which left him with a cerebral edema, or accumulation of fluid in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tragedy for the family and for our sport,&#8221; FISI president Flavio Roda said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is absolutely essential to do everything possible to ensure that such incidents never happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franzoso had been in Chile since September 6 training with the Italian team.<\/p>\n<p>FISI said he botched a small jump on the training course and hit a fence outside the course.<\/p>\n<p>He was airlifted to hospital, where he was placed in a medically induced coma but later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Italian ski team trains year after year at La Parva, which makes this situation deeply moving for us,&#8221; La Parva resort said in a statement sent to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Franzoso finished fourth in the downhill category at the 2020 Junior World Championships in Narvik, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>He competed in 17 World Cup ski races since his tournament debut in 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian ski racer Matteo Franzoso died following an accident in Chile where he was training with his country&#8217;s Olympic team, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) announced Monday. The 25-year-old skier was training on the upper part of La Parva Ski Resort, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital Santiago, when he fell on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}