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FIS has published the drafts for the continental circuit, which will start in late November between Levi (men) and Funaesdalen (women).
Monday 22 June 2020 6 minutes reading time
A European Cup clearly hanging in the balance, even more than for the World Cup itself, but there is also a provisional calendar for the circuit that acts as a launch for the arrival among the greats.
The calendar proposal will have to be ratified in early October at the next congress in Zurich, after a 2019/2020 cup that has given the Azzurri many satisfactions (although won at the level of general classification by the Norwegian McGrath and the Austrian Fest), with various fixed places for the next CdM and a series of weight victories, first of all we think of those of the young girls of the slalom, between Marta Rossetti and Martina Peterlini, but also the pearls of Sala and Liberatore or of sprinters like Alexander Prast.
A season that should start, now as usual, in Scandinavia at the end of November; the men's circuit includes two slaloms in Levi on 27-28 November (the week following the World Cup race), then passing through the two Swedish giants of Gaellivare and the Zinal races before the Italian block. As always, in December the heart of the European Cup will be on our snow, with the men engaged on Sunday 13 and Monday 14 December in the slopes of Santa Caterina Valfurva, then Wednesday 16 in the Obereggen slalom and Friday 18 in the other great classic among the rapid gates, or on the "Aloch" of Pozza di Fassa.
No parallel of Kronplatz (which will return to host the women's World Cup giant the following month), but after January divided between Val Cenis, Wengen and Gstaad, the shortened descent on the Streif of Kitzbuehel and still France with Val d''Isère and Orcieres-Merlette, in February we will return to the Italian snow with two giants in Folgaria, Thursday 4 and Friday 5, before another appointment in Tarvisio, to be confirmed on February 24-25 with descent and super-g.
The finals canceled this year will be "recovered", that is with speed races in Saalbach before the two days of giant and slalom in Reiteralm, on 20-21 March. Total of 14 fast races (7 downhill and as many super-g), 10 giants, 10 slalom, two combined and one parallel.
As for the women's calendar, it will start from the two slaloms of Funaesdalen, Sweden on November 27-28, then as last year the Norwegian giants of Trysil, and away to Italy which will have it back after the cancellation due to the very high temperatures of that period, the descents of the Val di Fassa (Thursday 17 and Friday 18 December), with two races on the splendid "La VolatA" slope of Col Margherita, at Passo San Pellegrino.
We will then go immediately to Andalo, for the two classic giants on Sunday 20 and Monday 21 December, while Italy will return to the protagonist in February, with two super-g scheduled in Val Sarentino, on the 10th and 11th of the month. The finals, also in this case, always divided between Saalbach and Reiteralm. The descents will therefore be 7, the super-g only 6, with 11 giants and 11 slaloms, as well as two combined and a parallel.
The junior world championships, which will feature various athletes from the European Cup, but obviously also many young people already in the CdM round, who will instead be staged in Bansko, from 1 to 11 March 2021.
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