The too hot and the expensive bills stop the FIS not only in Zermatt-Cervinia

There are 17 cancellations in this start of the season: in addition to 5 in alpine skiing, freestyle and snowboard disciplines are already suffering.

Wednesday 26 October 2022 4 minutes reading time

The complete failure of the ambitious project to have the speed on the calendar in alpine skiing already at the end of October, had been announced by other cancellations in disciplines always under the aegis of the International Federation. Waiting to understand if at least the first stages of Nordic skiing, including biathlon, will be able to start regularly from Ruka and Kontiolahti, in Finland, without plan B (deliberately written in capital letters), that of Zermatt-Cervinia was an announced hole in the water. from what happened in nearby places and freestyle and snowboard events, albeit at lower altitudes, forced to surrender earlier to global warming. This is especially the case of the ski cross, with the renunciations of the French stages of Megeve and Les Deux Alpes, where the double opening of the snowboard cross with Michela Moioli and companions also missed (rescheduled in this case for the weekend of 2-3 December). Also canceled the races in Alleghe and Falun, because they are too expensive! In addition to the giant won by Odermatt on the Rettenbach glacier, in this long wave of a hot summer, he competed only in Chur, in the Grisons, the city where Giorgio Rocca was born, where four big air tests, last Friday and Saturday. In all there are 17 missed appointments, of which 10 in ski cross. Even in Lech / Zürs, in Vorarlberg, above 1500 meters, they are still unable to shoot artificial snow in view of the parallels of the Alpine Skiing World Cup scheduled in Austria on 12 and 13 November. LIST OF CANCELED RACES Ski cross: men's and women's Les Deux Alpes (5 November), double men's and women's Alleghe (28-29 December), double men's and women's Megeve (28-29 January). Alpine skiing: women's giant Soelden (22 October), men's double downhill Zermatt-Cervinia (29-30 October), women's double downhill Zermatt-Cervinia (5-6 November). Snowboard cross (postponed to 2-3 December): men's and women's competition Les Deux Alpes (29 October).

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