The 2023-24 Alpine Skiing Globe Cup will have no parallel races and will debut a new Alpine combined group occasion.
Organizers also confirmed other previously proposed adjustments for subsequent season, which includes no women’s races in Lake Louise, Canada and moving the season-ending Globe Cup finals more than two weekends.
The season starts as usual with the women’s and men’s giant slalom in Solden, Austria, at the finish of October.
For the 1st time considering that at least 2009-ten. there are no parallel races on the schedule. Final season, one particular men’s and one particular women’s parallel cease was canceled due to climate. Person and group parallel disciplines have been held at the biennial planet championships final February, and some stars skipped them.
The IOC announced final spring that the group parallel occasion, which was on the Olympic plan in 2018 and 2022, was dropped for 2026.
At the annual men’s planet championships in Kitzbühel, Austria, an alpine combined occasion was added in January.
A group combined occasion, in which a nation makes use of a second skier for the speed and slalom, is proposed to debut.
The person mixture, which has been an person on the Olympic plan considering that 1988, will go for the fourth consecutive season with out a schedule at the Globe Championships. The IOC announced final June that the mixture was provisionally incorporated in the 2026 Olympic plan, topic to additional evaluation. The person mixture remained in the plan of the planet championships.
Lake Louise has traditionally hosted men’s and women’s speed races in late November and early December. But this year, the women’s races have been replaced by one more cease in Canada — two giant slaloms in Mont Tremblant, Quebec. It will be the 1st time considering that 1993-94 that the Women’s Globe Cup will not have a race in Lake Louise, apart from the pandemic-hit 2020-21 season.
In 2018, Lake Louise announced that its downhill course would be renamed “Lake Lindsay Way” right after Lindsay Vonnwho has earned 18 of her 82 Globe Cup wins at Lake Louise in 44 profession begins there.
Vonn was so prosperous there that midway via her profession, the spot unofficially started to be referred to as Lake Lindsay.
Mikaela Shiffrin she earned her 1st Globe Cup victories in downhill and super-G at Lake Louise.
The Globe Cup finals, which conclude in March in Saalbach, Austria, will move from one particular week to two weekends. The proposal released earlier in May possibly calls for technical slalom and giant slalom races on the 1st weekend and downhill speed and super-G races on the second weekend.
With no Globe Cups in even-numbered years, the Globe Cup finals will be subsequent season’s most prestigious competitors.
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