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"A difficult decision, but Beijing will make it to the Games in February 2022," said President Kasper. The only certainty is that in the 2020/21 season we will not go to China.
Friday 4 December 2020 3 minutes reading time
Only the official status was missing, which arrived this morning.
Even the FIS, on the wave of what has already been done by the international federations that manage the other winter disciplines, from biathlon to sledding, has announced that all the pre-Olympic test events planned in China will not be staged in the 2020/2021 season.
Together with the organizing committee of Beijing 2022, the International Federation ratified, given the situation linked to Covid and the mandatory quarantine for all participants, the cancellation of the women's World Cup competitions scheduled in Yanqing for alpine skiing (downhill and super- g on 27-28 February), the CdM finals for cross-country skiing, scheduled from 19 to 21 March, the cup events for jumping and Nordic combined in mid-February, as well as the snowboard and freestyle world championships that would be due to play from 18 to 28 February in Zhangjiakou.
In this case, as already leaked in recent days, the strongest candidacy to recover the world championship event elsewhere (which will still be saved) is the Italian one, but we will have to wait a few more days for the situation to evolve. "Travel restrictions have made it practically impossible to organize test events - said the president of FIS, Gian Franco Kasper - It was a difficult decision, but we know that the Beijing 2022 team will work in time to regularly stage the Olympic Games".
The FIS has confirmed that, in addition to looking for replacement locations for the canceled World Cup stages (for alpine skiing, we remember, La Thuile's candidacy is strong), it will work to propose some test events in the next season, but it seems clear that most will be played on a national scale, only with Chinese athletes who will not acquire FIS points on that occasion.
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