The Alpine World Ski Championships will likely be held in 3 weeks, in Courchevel and Méribel within the French Alps. Six hundred athletes from 75 nations will compete in mixed, downhill, slalom, large slalom, Super G and Parallel Events from the sixth to the nineteenth of February.
This yr’s heat wintry weather which has damaged information in France has now not involved the organisers who consider the contest will pass forward with out a hitch.
“November’s weather allowed us to produce a large amount of snow”, says Perrine Pelen, managing director of Courchevel-Méribel 2023 alpine international ski championship.
“At the end of the year, temperatures challenged us, but as you can see, conditions are now very favourable, the snow has fallen and the cold weather is back which will allow us to complete the preparation of the slopes in the best conditions,” defined Pelen.
Snow is again
On the second one web page in Méribel, maximum installations are arrange on the foot of the slope known as “Roc de Fer”, which is able to basically host the ladies’s occasions. Snow cannons duvet the observe to present probably the most uniform layer imaginable.
Yannick Favières is in control of this slope. He describes the odd season he has skilled. “It was not a classic season. In mid-December, we had the same weather we have now, and ten days later it was much more complicated”, says the women’s slope manager.
“But there have always been struggles with some winters. We know that it is not always simple and we have to act according to the weather.”
Other competitions combat
While the Courchevel-Méribel ski championship turns out out of bother, different competitions were present process critical snow shortages. The very famend Chuenisbärgli direction within the Swiss Alps, which hosted some World Cup snowboarding occasions, suffered with a loss of snow. The slope used to be then coated with synthetic snow.
“It was complicated for them in Adelboden even though they did a sensational job to manage to race in these conditions”, mentioned Yannick Favières when requested in regards to the World Cup.
“There always were competitions which have been cancelled, postponed and shifted. Obviously, we suffer from global warming like everyone else. We will have to be more and more flexible and reactive, but that’s part of the game, I’d like to say,” defined Favières.
When requested if low-altitude ski accommodations might be much less privileged for a lot of these international competitions, Perrine Pelen says we “must avoid any generality”.
“We may have to adapt this circuit. We’ll need to listen to Mother Nature to ensure that everything goes well,” mentioned Pelen.
Swiss Marco Odermatt and American Mikaela Shiffrin are the favourites for this festival. But they will have to stand French Alexis Pinturault who realized to ski proper at the slopes of Courchevel and Slovak Petra Vlhová.
