Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The fast races scheduled for February 15-16 in Yanqing, due to the situation related to the Coronavirus, will not be held. Many hypotheses still standing for recovery, let's see the situation.
Tuesday 28 January 2020 4 minutes reading time
It is now certain, even before meeting on Wednesday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the eve of the first test for the descent on the Kandahar.
The men's speed, downhill and super-g races scheduled for 15-16 in Yanqing, the venue that will host the Olympic games of the Beijing 2022 Games, will not be held due to the situation related to the Coronavirus. "The doctors have clearly indicated the impossibility of facing such a trip," the chief race director of the World Cup for the male sector, Markus Waldner, had already said on Monday evening.
Where will they be recovered? It is a very hot topic in these hours, given that the FIS has no intention of losing two fast races that would lead an already "questionable" calendar to become so unbalanced as to remove almost every chance for Kilde and Mayer on all, that is the sprinters running for the absolute crystal ball.
The first hypothesis standing is that of Saalbach-Hinterglemm: Austria is pushing hard, the location is ready for an event like the World Cup and next week will host two descents of the European Cup. There would be everything, after having already hosted two recoveries of technical races last year and two days of speed in February 2015, with a brace by Matthias Mayer (pictured). The problems: the Chinese races are in the hands of Infront, which must consider all the possibilities to then assign the organization to a federation, but above all the following week we will go to Japan, to Yuzawa-Naeba for giant and slalom (22- February 23) and the logistics plan would be complicated (as with any recovery on European snow).
Here are keeping more roads open, from the addition of races to Kvitfjell, although in that case it would be impossible to recover both (in Norway there are already a downhill and a super-g scheduled), to other locations such as Crans-Montana or Lenzerheide. "There are various possibilities - the great head of the Austrian federation, Peter Schroecksnadel spoke to Servus TV last night - Of course there was nothing else to do with such a situation, now it's up to the FIS to decide how to move".
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