Switzerland will prepare at home also in November: "No North America? Compulsory choice"

Walter Reusser, director of alpine skiing at Swiss-Ski, analyzes the decision of the FIS and draws a picture of the new season.

Saturday 22 August 2020 3 minutes reading time

The cancellation of the North American World Cup events, with five women's and five men's races that will not be staged between Killington, Lake Louise and Beaver Creek, changes the choices of staff and athletes also in terms of preparation, especially as regards the fast disciplines, given that the possibility of training in a perfect center like the one in Copper Mountain, Colorado jumps. If Italy will soon have to understand what solutions to find within its borders, waiting for certainties on the Val Senales, but certainly will have to move to ski in "someone else's house", Switzerland has many solutions in this regard, such as explained Swiss-Ski's director of alpine skiing, Walter Reusser. "Between Zinal, Sankt Moritz, Lenzerheide, Davos and Crans-Montana, also in November we will have the opportunity to train on our snow - Reusser said in a federal statement - The choice of the FIS was inevitable, essentially there was no alternative the cancellation of overseas races. Sorry, of course, but I believe that the rest of the season, albeit with the necessary adjustments, can go on stage regularly ”. We remind you that, pending the definitive calendar in the very first days of October and after the Levi slalom, confirmed for November 21-22, at present the men will start with technical tests and then the first speed races in the two consecutive weekends in Val d''Isère (5-6 and 12-13 December), while the first women's downhill (one of the two canceled in Lake Louise) will be rescheduled in Sankt Moritz, with Courchevel taking giant and slalom canceled in Killington and on rest of the missed North American races ... we'll see.

153

Social media engagement