President of Austrian Ski Federation bans Dave Ryding from training at Höss

Peter Schröcksnadel the president of the Austrian Ski Federation and co-owner of the Hinterstoder-Wurzeralm Bergbahnen AG has banned Dave Ryding from training at Hinterstoder - Höss. Apparently he wasn't best pleased when Dave set the fastest time in the first run of the slalom at Levi. This action breached the terms of Dave's recently extended contract with his main sponsor Pyhrn-Priel so the contract was dissolved.

Dave is now sponsored by Obergurgl-Hochgurgl https://www.obergurgl.com/daveryding

Are you saying that setting the fastest time breached his contract? I don't quite understand.

No, the action of banning from training at Hinterstoder breached the contract. Dave had a sponsoring contract with the Pyhrn-Priel regional tourist association https://www.urlaubsregion-pyhrn-priel.at/en as part of the deal he had use of the FIS homologated training piste at Hinterstoder http://www.hiwu.at/hinterstoder/en/winter/ski-area/racing-training/fis-training-course and the regional development centre https://www.skiverband-ooe.at/die-idee After Dave's recent results Peter Schröcksnadel who owns 53% of the Hinterstoder-Wurzeralm Bergbahnen AG decided to ban him from training there.

Schröcksnadel https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schr%C3%B6cksnadel has immense power he's like Bernie Ecclestone and Sepp Blatter rolled into one, basically what he says goes. If you challenge him you are likely to get into very serious trouble.

I'm a bit surprised the main stream media haven't picked up on this.

Interesting, thanks for that

What is it with these international sports bigwigs ? Self-importance or what ?