The 23-year-old Norwegian Lucas Braathen dances samba, paints his fingernails, wins the Slalom World Cup – and resigns before the start of the new season because of a dispute with his association. A shock for skiing that confronts it with many questions.
The investigation has not yet been completed and not all relevant information from the public has been evaluated, but as things stand, the ski racer Lucas Braathen traveled to Sölden in two copies this weekend for the start of the season. One Lucas Braathen appeared at his association’s press event on Thursday, wearing a gray sweater and white Norwegian Federation cap, holding his blue and red painted fingernails into the cameras. He talked about how he had spent the summer with friends from Brazil, his mother’s homeland, and how he was looking forward to the first giant slalom on Sunday. The World Ski Association Fis presented Braathen in a video on Friday afternoon as a jubilant winner, as someone who should whet the appetite for the new season.