Officially the 2014/15 World Cup season is due to start on Oct 25th with the FIS World Cup Opening race in Soelden (AUT), but for those competing in Soelden, the new season has started as soon as the past one wrapped up in March at the Finals in Lenzerheide(SUI). Since then, athletes and their teams have travelled the world finding the best snow conditions available in order to best prepare for the new season. We wanted to give you a glimpse of what summer looks like when part of your job includes chasing for year-round winter. Enjoy our newest Behind the Scenes video, “Another Summer” filmed in August and September in the south of Argentina.
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of Alpine Skiing competitions staged annually. It is considered the premier competition in alpine ski racing together with the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games and the biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Some experts event consider winning the World Cup to be athletically a more valuable title than winning gold at the Olympic Winter Games or the World Championships, since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several events throughout the season, and not just in one race. Today, the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races are held primarily at famous ski resorts in the European Alps, along with regular stops in Scandinavia, North America, and Far East Asia. Competitors attempt to score a maximum of points during the season in five events: slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and super combined. The fifth event, super-combined, was introduced in 2005 and generally consists of a shorter downhill race and a one-run slalom. Sometimes the downhill is replaced by a super-G. Alpine was added to the Olympic winter schedule in 1936.
For further information about FIS Alpine visit: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/
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