Four candidates for the 2027 Alpine World Ski Championships
The International Ski Federation (FIS) can rub its hands: the World Alpine Skiing Championships are still very appealing. The international body announced it received applications from four countries for the 2027 edition: Switzerland with Crans Montana, Germany with Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Norway with Narvik, and Andorra with Soldeu. However, only one application was submitted in time for the organization of the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2027. It was issued by the Swedish resort of Falun. The FIS has also registered a single bid for the World Ski Flying Championships in 2026, submitted by the German city of Oberstdorf. The choice of host cities will be decided by a FIS Council vote at the 53rd FIS Congress (late spring 2022). The next two editions of the World Alpine Ski Championships will be held in Meribel-Courchevel (France) in 2023 and Saalbach (Austria) in 2025.
It’s a wide, wide world….but not for skiers and riders this year
1st March 2021 | Craig Altschul
Italy s ski resorts are closed Copyright: Mercurynews.com
It all depends on where you live. That is clearly the upshot of the pandemic winter for skiers and riders the world over.
Consider ourselves among the lucky ones who can continue to enjoy our favorite sport at the resorts we know and love as long as those resorts are in the United States, Canada, Austria and Switzerland and we live there. OK, so we wear a mask, grab lunch on the go and consider our cars as mini base lodges.. But, we can ski or snowboard, right?
Edwards’ Mikaela Shiffrin with four Worlds medals (Getty Images).
Austria’s Katharina Liensberger dominated the women’s slalom at the World Alpine Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Saturday, beating Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova by a full second and Edwards’ Mikaela Shiffrin by nearly two seconds.
Shiffrin was trying to extend her record of four straight World Championship slalom gold medals, including her win in 2015 at the Worlds in Beaver Creek, but will settle for the bronze to go with her other three medals over the last two weeks in Cortina.
Shiffrin also claimed gold in the alpine combined, silver in the giant slalom and bronze in the super-G to extend her American record to 11 total World Championship medals.
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