Tyre Byter said:
No! It took me almost a month to track down that Tina Maze had (semi) retired.
So what's the story on Anna? Inquiring minds want to know!
Well first of all you need to know that one of the main sponsors of the ösv is audi. And you have to know that the skiers can't really choose there own sponsors on their own, because they need the agreement of the ösv first.
So, in the last winter Fenninger announced that she wants to change her sponsor because the partnership with Raiffeisen wasnt good. Fenningers german manager suggested mercedes as a new sponsor, and mercedes announced that they really would like to sponsor Fenninger. However the ösv didnt allow it because audi didnt want that the most important female skier of the ösv gets sponsored by one of audis biggest rivals.
After that there was nothing about this topic in the media for months until Fenningers manager announced that Fenninger isnt satisfied how she gets treated in the ösv. She said that she wants 2 trainers who only train her, and some more special treatment. The ösv said that its just impossible to give fenninger everything she wants because they also have to focus on young skiers and that everyone should get more or less the same treatment. (maybe worth mentioning that fenninger already has one trainer especially for her, so IMO the demand of fenninger is absolutely crazy). That was the first time that some people said fenninger could leave the ösv because then she could finance herself on her own with the sponsors she wants, and she could have as many trainers as she could pay. However in a meeting between the bosses of the ösv and fenninger they made up again and everyone thought that the problem would be solved
Only a few days later:
One would say this is a Mercedes advertisement but fenninger and her manager strongly disagreed. They claimed that on this picture its not even about Mercedes, they said this is actually advertisement for the "Laureus campaign" which helps to rescue wild cheetahs, and that this campaign only gets sponsored by Mercedes. You have to know that this text in the right corner at the top means "breathtaking in the city. Predator in the wilderness. Well,
Fenninger probably forgot that the ösv isnt a group of complete idiots, and maybe also that there is a Mercedes Logo on the right side combined with a car from mercedes and the little text under the stuff I just translated is also a description of a car and not a cheetah.
You can maybe imagine that the ösv went completely crazy after they saw that because its just a kick in there butt that after they were always criticized by fenninger and they did everything they could to make her happy, fenninger just gives a f*** about every contract she ever signed and made a Mercedes ad. (Yes for once I was on the side of the ösv) Of course fenninger claimed that the ösv agreed that she can make this advertisement, but why the hell should the ösv ever do this. I guess the ösv just said that she can go one with her cheetah campaign although it is sponsored by mercedes. Everyone expected that the ösv would throw fenninger out, but somehow they made peace with fenninger again and since that the topic is out of the media again.