Ski alpin: Kahr rejects accusations of abuse

Austria’s skiing legend Karl Kahr, one of the most successful coaches in the country’s history, has decidedly rejected serious accusations of abuse against him. This is reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The SZ quotes a lawyer of today’s 85-year-old. The accusations against Kahr are “taken out of the air, together and in particular”, they say, and “none of the incidents you have mentioned have ever happened”.

The SZ reports of two female athletes who are alleged to have made affidavits. Kahr and the Austrian ski hero Toni Sailer, who died in 2009, are accused of sexual abuse in three cases, the newspaper writes. These attacks are said to have already taken place in the 1960s. The Austrian Ski Association stated on SZ request that they did not know anything about the accusations against Kahr.

The accusations against Sailer, the first three-time Olympic champion in alpine ski racing in 1956 and one of the icons in Austria during his lifetime, are nothing new. In March 1974, he allegedly abused a 28-year-old prostitute at the edge of a World Cup slalom in Zakopane, Poland. Sailer was then 38 years old and ÖSV Alpine boss.

Allegations by the authorities:”forced breeding”, rape. This is evident from the files that the newspaper der Standard, the search collective Dossier and the radio station Ö1 have analysed.