{"id":2426126,"date":"2019-01-11T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=293375"},"modified":"2019-01-11T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:56:27","slug":"stefan-luitz-stripped-of-beaver-creek-birds-of-prey-win-for-oxygen-tank-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/stefan-luitz-stripped-of-beaver-creek-birds-of-prey-win-for-oxygen-tank-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Luitz stripped of Beaver Creek Birds of Prey win for oxygen tank use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">OBERHOFEN, Switzerland \u2014 The International Ski Federation has disqualified Stefan Luitz from his first World Cup win for inhaling from an oxygen tank between giant slalom runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The federation says the German racer will lose his prize money of 45,000 Swiss francs ($46,000) and 100 World Cup points for the Dec. 2 victory in Beaver Creek. Luitz will not be banned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Racing at an altitude of 10,340 feet (3,152 meters), Luitz used the oxygen before retaining his first-run lead over Marcel Hirscher. The Austrian great will be awarded the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The International Ski Federation prohibits using supplemental oxygen even though the World Anti-Doping Agency does not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Skiing\u2019s governing body says its hearing panel\u2019s decision is \u201cnot a sanction, but a consequence of the rule violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Luitz and Germany\u2019s ski federation can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/stefan-luitz-stripped-of-beaver-creek-birds-of-prey-win-for-oxygen-tank-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBERHOFEN, Switzerland \u2014 The International Ski Federation has disqualified Stefan Luitz from his first World Cup win for inhaling from an oxygen tank between giant slalom runs. The federation says the German racer will lose his prize money of 45,000 Swiss francs ($46,000) and 100 World Cup points for the Dec. 2 victory in Beaver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2426126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:48:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}