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After the start throwing competition March to Sunday River, will return next season on American snow the World Pro Skiing Tour
Thursday 6 April 2017 6 minutes reading time
In 1969, the 'Olympism provided strict rules to prevent' access to competitions to any form of professionalism; in defense of the principles that were diventanto anachronistic placed himself with absolute rigidity of the president of the IOC, Avery Brundage, to the point that three years after the great Austrian Karl Schranz was disqualified, the third in all the history of the Olympics after Jim Thorpe and Paavo Nurmi, for professionalism and expelled from the Olympic village of the Sapporo Games for having given his name and likeness for advertising purposes.
Just in 1969, just across dell''Oceano, the commentator and television impresario Bob Beattie launched a professional circuit, the World Pro Skiing Tour which guaranteed to those who participated and advertising revenue with lots of threats by the FIS retaliation against the towns that had hosted the races. After a year of running it was introduced the successful formula of the parallel slalom. There were many successful goers of the World Cup in the twilight of their careers to give amateur status and enrich the spectacle of the Tour as Billy Kidd, Jean-Noel Augert, Henry Duvillard, Jean-Claude Killy but the circuit could also create its champions as the 'Austrian Andre Arnold after haggard appearances in the White Circus at age 21 he made bags and moved to the United States to win four consecutive years the overall standings of the World Pro Skiing Tour with attached check. In 2013, the Boston Globe recalling the early days of the circuit reported that in 1974 the 'Austrian Hugo Nindl grossed more than $ 90,000, just under $ 500,000 today, the same prize won by Marcel Hirscher in this season's World Cup, and Jean-Claude Killy, rounding with advertising revenue, greatly in excess of $ 100,000.
All''inizio eighties, Bob Beattie left the circuit guide who lived periods of 'gold with the' arrival of the gemelli Phil and Steve Mahre but times were changing, and in 1999 the end of the sponsorship agreement with Chrysler and the renunciation of television coverage by ESPN who preferred to invest in nascent X-Games led to the death of the circuit.
After 17 years, still c''è the hand of Bob Beattie, along with that of Ed Rogers all''epoca who took his place, in an attempt to relaunch the World Pro Ski Tour. The Sunday River 'is March 11 It has played the 'inaugural event which saw the victory of the national sample statunitenese David Chodounsky. The ambitions are high: already in the next season, the circuit should have four-five events in places like Vail, Nashoiba Valley, Sunday River, Squaw Valley and Le Massif, Canada in Mont-Sainte-Anne area. But already there is talk, once fully operational, a calendar with a fortnight of events in the Americas and, to extend the ski season, Southern nell''emisfero, on the 'European and' glaciers in summer ski indoors.
As stated by the head of the revived circuit marketing, Craig Marshall, in Skionline.ch in the early calendar it will comply with the requirements of the World Cup, but the dream is to become competitive and create an alternative event of similar level.
The challenge is to find, in a world where there are more status separations, a level athletes basin, the risk is to become at best a luxury alternative to South American and summer ocean tour and, in winter, gather a cast of hardcore patrons of the Nor-Am Cup and retirees of high birth.
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