After the 2019 edition held in Åre, Sweden, World ski championships make their return to Italy, where they have been missing since Bormio 2005. 2021 world champs will be hosted in Cortina d’Ampezzo, where they had already occurred in 1932, 1941, declared invalid due to world war, and 1956.
World ski championships are held every two years and they are structured as a single race for each discipline. Differently from the World Cup, which is a full-season series, athletes, to be crowned World Champions, have to express their best performance with only one attempt available, with no room for mistakes or hesitation. Only one chance to raise the gold medal standing on the top step of the podium and make the national anthem resound.
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The disciplines competing at the worlds will be the same as the World Cup. The fast ones: downhill and super-g. The technical ones: giant slalom and slalom. The Alpine combined will then be structured with a super-g round and a slalom round, and parallel giant slalom will put the skiers face to face. Last but not least, the parallel team event which will declare the most competitive national team. The teams will count four skiers, two women and two men.
The first week will be dedicated to the fast disciplines and the Alpine combined, whereas the second week will be dedicated to the technical ones and the parallel slalom.
The racing stage will be the slopes of Cortina d’Ampezzo, including the famous Olympia delle Tofane, which has been hosting women’s World Cup downhill and super-g races since 1993. The other slopes scene of the world races will be Drusciè A, for men’s and women’s slalom, Labirinti, Rumerlo and Vertigine, for men’s downhill.
From the 8th to the 21st of february the best skiers in the world will challenge each other on the slopes of the Dolomites to hold up the flag of their country and to try to take home a medal. The extreme conditions they are going to face, determined by the environment but especially by the speed and forces in play, create the need for protection. Protection that brings the utmost confidence to express everyone’s full potential on the world ski championships’ steepest slopes.
