Mikaela Shiffrin gets 2020-21 World Cup slate

The Worldwide Ski Federation introduced on Saturday that Saalbach, Austria, will host the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2025.

Saalbach beat out Garmisch, Germany, and Crans Montana, Switzerland, and final hosted the championships in 1993. Austria shall be internet hosting worlds for the primary time in 12 years (Schladming, 2013), which is an eternity for the Land of Mountains.

This would be the ninth time Austria, the premier ski energy on the earth, is doing the honors for the reason that occasion began in 1931.

The 2021 worlds are in Cortina, Italy, in February and Courchevel-Meribel, France, takes its flip in 2023. The USA has solely hosted 4 instances with Aspen in 1950 and Vail/Beaver Creek in 1989, 1999 and 2015.

Additionally on Saturday, FIS formally set its schedule for the 2020-21 World Cup season. Whereas beforehand introduced, there shall be no North American stops as a consequence of COVID-19 on the tour. That features the same old Birds of Prey males’s cease in Beaver Creek in addition to visits to Lake Louise, Alberta, (women and men) and Killington, Vermont (girls).

Killington is a specific favourite of Mikaela Shiffrin. Not solely are the races there the one on American snow, however she went to close by Burke Academy.

After the normal big slalom opener in Soelden, Austria, on Oct. 17, the season begins in earnest with a parallel occasion in Lech/Zurs, Austria (Nov. 13). On what can be Killington weekend, the women are in Levi, Finland, for 2 slaloms (Nov. 21-22).

The primary pace of the yr is now in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Dec. 5-6, when the women would often be in Lake Louise and the lads in Beaver Creek.

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With the slate out, some observations:

• Benefit tech racers: There are solely 15 pace occasions and 19 tech races.
• Shiffrin has received at each web site internet hosting a World Cup big slalom or slalom this season, apart from Lech/Zurs, which has not hosted the circuit since December 1994. Shiffrin was born March 13, 1995.
• Shiffrin has 4 World Cup wins every in Levi, Courchevel, Semmering, Austria, Zagreb, Croatia, and Maribor, Slovenia, all stops on the white circus this season. Madame additionally has received 4 instances in Are, Sweden, thrice on the World Cup and as soon as at worlds in 2019.
• Talking of phrases, Shiffrin has by no means competed in a World Cup tech occasion in Cortina. The Italian resort is historically a pace cease for the women. Nonetheless, Shiffrin received super-G there on Jan. 20, 2019. Whereas her focus throughout the championships is often GS and slalom (she’s received this self-discipline in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019), she must be set as much as compete in pace, if she so chooses.
• What about China? The ladies are scheduled to move out to Yanqing after worlds for a downhill and a super-G. That is related for Shiffrin as a result of it’s the much-delayed take a look at occasion for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Whereas post-worlds is mostly a little bit of relaxation time for Shiffrin, this is likely to be a go as a result of she appears to love Olympic medals (gold in slalom in 2014 and a win in GS in 2018).
• World Cup finals are in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The final two instances this course hosted finals in 2013 and 2014, some girl named Shiffrin received the slalom to shut out the season.