An evening dedicated to skiing at the Cervino CineMountain, from Zurbriggen to Gros to the new "Gran Becca"

On Monday 8 August, the show will host more events with great guests, including the launch of the historic World Cup event for Zermatt / Cervinia.

Friday 5 August 2022 4 minutes reading time

Between October (Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 with two men's descents) and November (the first weekend of the month, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 with the two women's fast races), the "Gran Becca" track starting from Rollin's Hump, in Switzerland, and arriving above Cervinia, at the Cime Bianche Lakes, it will host the great novelty represented by the “Matterhorn Cervino Speed Opening”, the first four cross-border races in the history of the World Cup. To celebrate this important event, which will bring great skiing back to Valle d'Aosta, the Cervino CineMountain will dedicate an evening, Monday 8 August, to the legends of this sport and to the stories of the protagonists' emotions as the most awaited appointment approaches. of the season. At 18.00, the historic Piazzetta delle Guide will be the setting for "We Are The Champions", the presentation of this joint event, which involves politics, economy and society of the respective regions in an epochal challenge for the tourism development of the entire area . On stage, to tell the behind the scenes, the expectations and the importance for the territory, the Ambassador of the stage of Zermatt / Cervinia will go up, that champion who responds to the name of Pirmin Zurbriggen, the President of the Organizing Committee and of the Zermatt Bergbahnen, Franz Julen, the councilors of the Aosta Valley Region, Jean Pierre Guichardaz (Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Sport and Commerce of the Region) and Luigi Bertschy (Economic Development, Training and Work), Herbert Tovagliari (Spa Cervino), Chantal Vuillermoz (Councilor for Sport and Mountain Municipality of Valtournenche) and Marco Mosso (number 1 of FISI-Avisa Valle d''Aosta). With them also Piero Gros, one of the great protagonists of the Blue Avalanche of the '70s, winner of the World Cup and the gold medal in the special slalom at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck. To follow, at 9.00 pm at the Congress Center di Valtournenche, “Downhill” for an evening with Peter Fill and Gerald Salmina, the director of “Streif - A special descent”, with a screening entirely for the Aosta Valley Festival. Peter Fill, who triumphed in the downhill symbol of great skiing in 2016, will recount the emotions experienced by linking with a direct line to the novelty of the "Gran Becca", for the launch of the event that in the middle of autumn, after the cup opening in Soelden, it will be the real attraction of the next season of the white circus.

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