Amid growing environmental concerns surrounding the sport, the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on a glacier in Austria this weekend
Just a fraction of the talk in the buildup to this weekend’s Alpine skiing World Cup opening has been about who will win the races or if Mikaela Shiffrin and Marco Odermatt are going to dominate the season again. The main topic is whether in times of global warming a winter sport season should still start as early as October.
” The organization posted an image of the Soelden track — a white stripe down the brown, rocky hill on a dark, rainy day — with the text “Move the date,” adding they “demand FIS move the race calendar to suit the climate.” Earlier this year, an open letter urging the International Ski and Snowboard Federation to become more transparent about its strategy for the future of the sport amid the climate change challenges was signed by hundreds of skiers — including Shiffrin, but not Odermatt.
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