FIS Alpine World Cup Opener at Sölden, Austria, Receives Go Forward After Constructive ‘Snow Management’

The 2024 Sölden World Cup has been given the inexperienced gentle by the Worldwide Ski & Snowboard Federation (FIS) after a constructive ‘snow management’ on Thursday, October 17. Snow management for FIS races is an inspection of the situations on a World Cup race course previous to a race to make sure the course is ready based on FIS requirements and is protected for World Cup athletes to compete on. For greater than 30 years, Sölden has been internet hosting the FIS Alpine World Cup season opener with two Large Slalom occasions on the Rettenbach Glacier: a ladies’s and a males’s occasion. This 12 months’s occasions are scheduled for October 26 and 27, with the ladies’s occasion on Saturday and the lads’s on Sunday.

Final 12 months, the ladies’s Large Slalom was received by Switzerland’s Lara Intestine-Behrami forward of Italy’s Federica Brignone and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova. U.S. ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin narrowly missed out on a podium, coming in sixth place, 1.4 seconds behind her Swiss rival Lara Intestine-Behrami. Together with her victory, Intestine-Behrami tied with Tina Maze for essentially the most victories on the season opener because the occasion began.

Sadly, final 12 months, the lads’s Large Slalom was canceled attributable to heavy winds.

The Austrian resort has been internet hosting the season opener on the Rettenbach Glacier since 1993. The race is a spotlight for spectators and racers alike, and nearly the whole race course could be noticed from the stands within the end space. Circumstances this 12 months on the Rettenbach Glacier are glorious. Because of the nice situations, Sölden opened for snowboarding on September 20.

The Sölden ski space has two glacier ski areas and a winter ski space. The glacier ski space on the Rettenbach Glacier is situated at an altitude of two,670 meters (8,760 toes). The resort is located at a base elevation of 1,350 meters (3,445 toes) and reaches a peak elevation of three,340 meters (10,958 toes). The mixed ski space gives 144 kilometers (90 miles) of groomed runs.

2024 WORLD CUP EVENT SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

10:00 am	1st run Mens GSL	Rettenbach Glacier
	Glacier Get together DJ Lukas Brunner & Die Draufgänger	Rettenbach Glacier
01:00 pm	2nd run Mens GSL	Rettenbach Glacier
afterward	Prize giving ceremony males	Rettenbach Glacier
	Glacier Get together DJ Lukas Brunner & Die Draufgänger	Rettenbach

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