 Poster: A snowHead
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The host of the Alpine WC 2013 is to be announced today. Probably the toughest competition ever.
Beaver Creek/Vail (US),
St. Moritz (CH)
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)
Schladming (A)
Which one would be the right place?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not Cortina, surely, does it have the slopes?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not Schladming as it could put up the prices in the Ski Amade, and I was happy with €3 for a large beer 
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – With the final FIS council vote 24 hours off, it is crunch time for the four alpine World Championship bid candidates.
Four major resorts are vying for the 2013 event, which will be awarded on the basis of a vote by the 17-member FIS council here on Thursday afternoon.
Contending for the honor are the United States with Beaver Creek/Vail, Austria with Schladming, Italy with Cortina d’Ampezzo and Switzerland with St. Moritz.
Who’s going to win is anyone’s guess and while rumors run rampant, conventional wisdom indicates that the race is between Schladming and Beaver Creek/Vail.
“You just don’t know how you are doing,” bemoans Greg Johnson, a member of the Colorado resort bid team and chief of race at the annual Birds of Prey event. “We found that out in Miami when we thought we had enough votes and wound up with three or four.” Beaver Creek/Vail’s bid for the 2009 Championships failed in Miami as Val d’Isere took the honors.
This year’s Beaver Creek/Vail bid is in sharp contrast to the failed effort in Miami.
“We learned we have to be humble," said Ceil Folz, who heads the bid effort and is president of the Vail Valley Foundation, which will run the Championships if the bid is successful.
Folz muses about U.S. chances for victory. She feels the bid is competitive but doesn’t know if it will be enough. “Some associations have an influence on their council member,” she said. “Others have no influence on what their council member does.”
Schladming, considered the frontrunner, last held the World Championships in 1982. In the heart of ski mad Austria, the resort annually holds one of the best attended events on the alpine World Cup circuit and is easily accessible to fans, a factor that will not be overlooked by the FIS council.
While St. Moritz is considered to be a long shot, the glitzy resort has mounted a strong bid. Fresh of its highly successful 2003 World Championships, St. Moritz is rumored to be looking more at the 2015 Games.
Italy’s Cortina d’Ampezzo, which hosts the premiere women’s downhill on the women’s circuit, is thought to be a long shot. The resort has not held a major event since the 1956 Olympic Winter Games.
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http://www.skiracing.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6552&Itemid=2
Haven't seen anything in the press here so that probably means Beaver Creek/Vail (US) will get it.
http://www.skiracing.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6549&Itemid=2
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – With the final FIS council vote 24 hours off, it is crunch time for the four alpine World Championship bid candidates.
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Beaver Creek/Vail’s bid for the 2009 Championships failed in Miami as Val d’Isere took the honors.
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Great to see the FIS supporting the snowsports industry in the well known resorts of Miami and Cape Town!
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Beaver Creek is probably the best resort for permanent home of the world champs - soulless enough to ensure that everything runs smoothly and deluxe enough to ensure that the bureaucrats feel pampered.
I notice all the contenders seem like relatively recent hosts however except for Cortina (the heritage vote).
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Whose 'turn' is it?
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I notice all the contenders seem like relatively recent hosts however except for Cortina (the heritage vote). |
I'm not sure that 31 years previously is "relatively recent", and that is what it would be in 2013 for Schladming.
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alex_heney,
In 5 years time it would be 31 years, why not just say 26 years ago?
Schladming has other things going for it.
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Schladming (AUT)
— Host of the 1982 World Alpine Ski Championships, the 1997 World Junior Championships and 34 FIS World Cup events since 1973,
— Schladming hosted the 1993 Special Olympics World Winter Games
— The Schladming Winter Sports Club will celebrate its 100-year anniversary in 2008.
— Hosts a World Cup men’s night slalom that routinely draws nearly 50,000 fans
— All competition sites are ready
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http://www.skiracing.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6549&Itemid=2
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My hear says Schladming but the sick sense of humor in me would love to see it hoste in a town where the off licence is called Beaver Lliquors! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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St Moritz.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ordhan, goes down well too 
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You know it makes sense.
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Beaver Creek
So the races are live in the evening UK time after work.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Tough on the Vail people - that will be seven alpine championships in a row in Europe, 2001 - 2013.
Having said that, can you justify holding it in a country which does not even televise the sport? (Even in a season when their racers take both overall titles?)
Austria is "Schi Nation Nummer Eins" and Schladming 2013 will of course be a huge party.
Having raced in four WC downhills in Schladming (83, 85, 88 and 90) I can testify that the course is a worthy challenge. Just look at the winners of those races: Resch, Wirnsberger, Zurbriggen, Piccard. The first-ever WC DH held there was also Franz Klammer's first-ever WC DH win, in 1973. The other winners there in the 70s were Crazy Canucks: Irwin and Read.
The men's downhill has not been used since 1990, so some course re-design will be required.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ordhan, Nice thought, but not true
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