Amid growing environmental concerns surrounding the sport, the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on a glacier in Austria this weekend. The schedule goes to March and there are more races than ever before: 90, evenly divided between women and men.
FILE - United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin competes in a women’s World Cup slalom race, in Soldeu, Andorra, Saturday, March 18, 2023. Amid growing environmental concerns surrounding the sport, the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on a glacier in Austria this weekend with more races scheduled until March than ever before: 90, evenly divided between women and men.
Those are the first two in a series of 90 races until mid-March, evenly divided between women and men, making for the busiest season in the 57-year history of the World Cup.Bocock sisters set to become rare siblings to make their World Cup ski racing debuts in same race A regular venue like Zagreb does not show up in the calendar anymore, since its low altitude has caused the Croatian organizers more and more trouble in recent years in preparing a course suitable for World Cup races.
The organization posted an image of the Soelden track — a white stripe down the brown, rocky hill on a dark, rainy day — with the text “Move the date,” adding they “demand FIS move the race calendar to suit the climate.” “Soelden has never been a real winter race, it shouldn’t be. Soelden is the season opener, a wakeup call for the ski industry and the fans that we are starting again,” said Odermatt, who won the race in the past two years, and each time went on to win the overall title.