In Folgaria everything postponed for a couple of weeks: the giants of the European Cup in early February

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After today's cancellation of the first giant on Salizzona, due to a weather situation that will be negative for the whole weekend, it was decided to ask the FIS for new dates for the dispute of the double male appointment (which also included De Aliprandini at the start and Borsotti). Now under with the Alpe Cimbra FIS Children Cup.

Friday 22 January 2021 3 minutes reading time

While the women managed to finish the two-day slalom in Gstaad regularly, with the same narrow-post specialists back on track between Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 with two more races in Zell am See, the European Cup stops at the men's level . Two very high level giants were scheduled for today and tomorrow on the Salizzona di Folgaria track, if we think that Luca De Aliprandini and Giovanni Borsotti were also registered, for a double pre-world test on par with Mathieu Faivre and many other top elements in the World Cup , but everything is up because of a weather situation, with snowfall that will continue over the weekend, which has advised the organizers and FIS to cancel, or rather postpone the two trials in Trentino. The Polisportiva Alpe Cimbra that sets up the event, in fact, obtained from the international federation the opportunity to relocate the races on the calendar in early February, as confirmed during the day by the president of the reality of Folgaria, Ruggero Carbonari: "After having discussed with the manager of the European Cup, Wim Rossel, to guarantee the safety of the athletes in the competition, it was therefore decided to recover the event in a couple of weeks, also because the European Cup calendar already includes training on Monday 25 January of fast races in Orcieres Merlette. So there is no space to postpone the races by just a few days ”. On Monday, among other things, the 50th edition of the Alpe Cimbra FIS Children Cup will begin in Folgaria with the national selections to form the Italian teams competing until Tuesday, then team events on Wednesday and international finals on Friday and Saturday on the slopes Salizzona for the giant and Agonistica for the slalom.

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