Alpine Skiing
Daniela Merighetti
The FIS website has published a comprehensive account of the decisions taken on alpine skiing last week in Portoroz, Slovenia.
Monday 29 May 2017 5 minutes reading time
By losing the calendars for the time being, the most important regulatory change is the diversification of the starting order of the descent to race races. In fact last season odd numbers from 1 to 19 were chosen by the top 10 athletes for placing order in the World Cup Start List as in the race, but next winter will be drawn. The subcommittee on alpine skiing has also discussed a possible reduction in the field of participation in the races and the debate will most likely continue for a long time since finding an agreement at this time seems difficult. As for the parallel, the idea is to blend the current format (team event, city event, slalom or parallel gigantr) into a unique format to make fans more aware of these competitions.
In the last winter, 231 races took place in the various continental cups, demonstrating their good health, and Val d'Isère even organized live streaming on the internet. In addition, more and more places that host World Cup races agree to host the Continental Cup: Lake Louise and Wengen have been doing it for years, Kitzbühel started last season hosting a downhill biennial (so next winter) and Next time there could be streaming in collaboration with ORF. Now Kvitfjell will also be added to these locations.
And now we come to calendars, as always the most anticipated event of the offseason. Of course, the event will be, from 9 to 25 February, the Pyeongchang Olympics. But there are some interesting news.
1) On January 1, Oslo organizes a double City Event for the top 12 men and the top 12 women, picking up a witness from Monaco as part of the organization of New Year's Paralympics.
2) Courchevel, in addition to the giant, is expected to have a female parallel slalom but the novelty is the qualification in the morning at what will be the final stages.
3) It's not a novelty, but a wonderful confirmation: Plan de Corones was immediately able to confirm his female giant immediately after the first controversy.
4) In addition to the traditional run-off on the track, Garmisch-Partenkirchen will have a two-handed descent instead of the superG.
5) After three winters of absence, finally the male descent on the Stelvio of Bormio, where the next day will be a combo.
6) As is traditionally the case when next winter is an iridescent review, the World Cup finals will be staged at Ã…re just under one year before the world championships in the Swedish resort.
One of the most important rumors has been confirmed: in the long-term calendar on the FIS website there is still no calendar for 2020-2021 (arriving until 2019-2020) but those to whom it was presented in Portorose could see That from that season there will no longer be combinations and the number of paralleles will increase.
Finally, Lenzerheide and Bansko were nominated for the 2019 finals, while Courchevel-Méribel and Saalbach-Hinterglemm held their first informative meeting as a candidate for the World Cup in 2023. The next FIS meeting will take place in Zurich in early October .
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