Tour de Ski, Cermis confirmed until 2018. Change some race format

On 28 December 2013 the Tour de Ski starts with a prologue in Oberhof (GER). Countdown to the World Cup, which will open in late November in the Finnish Kuusamo. Val di Fiemme and its Final Climb confirmed for the two-day final until 2018.

Thursday 7 November 2013 5 minutes reading time

MILAN - The month of October is usually just ended the period of high altitude training for athletes of Nordic skiing, in preparation for the impending start of the season. However, to find optimum snow conditions that allows all phases of training must still rise to the top and no accident that many of the national teams have chosen destinations such as Livigno and then Val Senales in Italy, but also Ramsau (AUT), and Magglingen Davos ( SUI). There are some who also has played some stages in the futuristic tunnel refrigerated Oberhof (GER), a construction that allows you to train all year round on a track nearly two kilometers of perfectly snow-covered and stored at a constant temperature of - 4 Â° C. And from Oberhof, but on natural snow, on 28 December, will open the dances of the new Tour de Ski. As for the start of the World Cup instead of the first races are expected in just over a month in Kuusamo (FIN), where you will begin on November 29 with the classic technique sprint races. For the edition number 8 of the Tour de Ski, however, the calendar offers 7 races in less than 10 days. We will start precisely from the Thuringian Forest, in Oberhof, with the first two stages. Saturday 28 will put your skis for testing in free technique of 3 km (women) and 4 km (men) to be followed by the two races Sunday 29 to chase classic distances on 9 and 15 km, respectively women and men. A cut of 24 hours will be used to move the caravan in Switzerland, in Lenzerheide, for 1,600 meters of male and female sprint free technique (31/12) and try to stride 10 and 15 km (01/01) . At that point you will rest for a day before going to Italy for the 15 km women's and men's 35 km free technique of Cortina-Toblach (03/01), between Veneto and Alto Adige, followed by , the two-day final once again land in Val di Fiemme (04-05/01). The appointment Trentino, present in the calendar of the Tour de Ski since its inception in 2007, reserves emotions from the renewed evidence of the 4th of January. From the 2013-2014 season, in fact, will go on the new distances of 5 km (women) and 10 km (men) with individual start. The final show, scheduled for January 5, it will be as usual Final Climb to Alpe Cermis, which has become the highlight of the entire Tour de Ski. The 9 km race, with the arduous climb up the ramps of the track Olimpia III Cermis decide everything and for everything in a thrilling chase skating. To make a further recognition for the quality and the spectacle of the race, the autumn meeting of the FIS event in Zurich (SUI) has established that the presence of the stage Fiemme in the circuit of the Tour de Ski will be extended until 2018.

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