Alpine SkiingAlpine skiing - Trofeo Topolino
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Here is the press release of'' Press Newspower presentation of the most important youth ski event in the world.
Thursday 30 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
The winter ski youth would not be nearly "worthy" of the name if he had not scheduled the Trofeo Topolino Alpine Ski. The next March 14 and 15 on the slopes of Folgaria (TN) returns the celebration of Disney home and is ready to do so with the usual spectacle of hundreds of young people from every continent to compete among wide doors and narrow poles.
The disciplines involved are in fact the giant slalom and the special, along the two tracks and Competitive Martinella North, adjacent to each other and with a unique audience of arrival. The first is a "black" that measures a total of 1.3 kilometers and will welcome both gigantism Boys Students. The starting point will be located at 1,551 meters above sea level and the athletes will descend 215 meters in altitude, arriving at an altitude of 1,336 meters. Regarding the Martinella North, for the second year at the court of the young protagonists of the Trofeo Topolino, the track will be lined with narrow poles and athletes will click through the gate located to 1495 meters. In front of them 159 meters dive in slalom and then close, as I said, in the same parterre of gigantism.
At the Trofeo Topolino Alpine Ski young people come every year from all over the world and in 2013, with the weather trying to spoil the party in all ways but without ultimately failed, the Italians were to win the final ranking of nations winning 5 medals total (4 gold and 1 silver), ahead of Austria, Bulgaria and France.
The program of the Trofeo Topolino Alpine Skiing 2014 law opening (Monday 10th and Tuesday, March 11th) selections among the Italian national committees to the slopes of Trentino their representatives, which will manifest the top 20. The latter will then form Italy A and B in the Italian international challenge of the weekend immediately following.
The history of the event would have many ... Disney stories. The origins refer to the April 13, 1958 when on the slopes of Courmayeur Aosta Valley opened the gate edition debut, with 115 young people to compete in giant slalom. The founders and creators of the event were the well-known television host and then leader of the Italian Ski Academy, as well as a collaborator of the magazine Topolino, Mike Bongiorno, and the Trentino journalist Rolly Marchi. In Trentino, and specifically on Monte Bondone, the Trofeo Topolino arrived the following year.
After two editions in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Cervinia, Mickey returned to rhyme with Trentino and the fifth edition was hosted in Madonna di Campiglio. Since 1963, still on Monte Bondone, the Trofeo Topolino Alpine Ski opened the doors to foreigners totaling over 420 participants, who became more than 700 two years later. The mini avalanche juvenile was swelling in the eye, and the "mini" is obviously referring only to the age of the participants.
In 1970, the FIS recognized as the Criterium International Youth Trophy and Monte Bondone not moved again until 1993. In 1989 was born the Organizing Committee headed by the president Mauro Detassis between the nineties and the new millennium, the event became traveling between Folgarida - Marilleva still Bondone, Pinzolo, Panarotta and, since 2011, lies in Folgaria. As of March is not far away and the young skiers from around the world are already on track towards the Trofeo Topolino number 53 of all time.
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