Cortina 2022 does discuss. Brignone still has ... Faith: "I still hope in the 2021 World Cup and with the public"

The case of the one-year shift of the world championships. CEO Giacobbi: "A proposal that has become necessary".

Tuesday 26 May 2020 3 minutes reading time

Cortina 2021 or ... 2022? FISI, CONI and the Cortina 2021 Foundation seem to have no doubts, with the procedure to move the world championship event forward in the pearl of the Dolomites forward by one year, which has been shared by all parties and officially proposed to the FIS council on Monday who on 1 July will vote for acceptance or not. February 2021 or March 2022, therefore, a month after the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, for an overlap in the same season that worries athletes in the first place. Like Federica Brignone: “I think the World Cup, but also the Olympics in part, would lose and it would be a shame for Cortina, among other things after having already lost the World Cup finals. On the other hand, the risk of running my first world championships at home without an audience would not make sense, but in any case I hope they can still be done in 2021 and it is perhaps a bit 'premature to give up already now ". The sports director of the German federsci, Wolfgang Maier, was critical: "It would certainly not be a good thing for athletes to have two big events so close to each other", without considering all the problems related to the 2021/22 World Cup calendar . The managing director of Cortina 2021, Valerio Giacobbi, explains the reasons for the request for postponement: “We hope that the request made to the FIS board by President Roda, on behalf of the Foundation and all its founding members, is welcomed. This is a proposal that has become necessary due to the continuing uncertainty worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our road map does not change, we will continue to work hard to organize the world championship event, but we hope that our local community will be able to experience the event as a protagonist, expressing all its potential ".

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