1.   In January that year, Ulrike Maier of Austria crashed and died after slamming her head against a timing post in a downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

2.   He had argued in court the timing post had been badly positioned and was in too narrow a section of the course to be safe.

3.   Maier, double world super giant slalom champion, broke her neck when she hit a timing post which the prosecution alleges was in the wrong place.

4.   Maier, double world super giant slalom champion, broke her neck when she hit a timing post which the prosecution alleges was wrongly sited.