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‘It’s not often that you see blood’: Romed Baumann crashes into finish banner in worlds downhill

German skier Romed Baumann walked off on his own after crashing into an advertising banner and bloodying his face in the world Alpine skiing championships downhill on Sunday.

Video is here.

Baumann, a 35-year-old former Austrian, slipped and fell in the finish area after skiing into ninth place and slid through a Giorgio Armani banner at decent speed.

Baumann, who ultimately finished 14th, emerged a minute later and stood up with blood streams across his cheeks and chin.

“It’s not often that you see blood besides from [Ester] Ledecka in races like that” NBC Sports analyst Lindsey Vonn said on the Olympic Channel broadcast, referencing Ledecka’s World Cup crash last month.