The year 2025 opens with super news for Alpine Skiing fans with the FIS deciding to make up, on the Sestriere weekend, one of the two Women’s Giant events cancelled due to lack of snow in Mont-Tremblant, Canada. Thus, as early as Friday, February 21, 2025, the athletes of the White Circus will take to the slopes on the Giovanni Alberto Agnelli Kandahar in Sestriere, recovering precisely a Canadian Giant.
“When FIS contacted us proposing the recovery of one of the two Giants cancelled in Canada,” explains Gualtiero Brasso, President of the Organizing Committee, ”I cannot hide that the first reaction was one of pride for the trust in our Organizing Committee, earned in the field over the years. Immediately afterwards, we activated for all the necessary evaluations together with our staff and partners to figure out how to integrate and deal with, with respect to what had already been established, the commitment to double the Giant event. At the end of the verifications, we accepted the FIS request, immediately putting ourselves to work to reciprocate the trust placed in us in the best possible way. The support we received from FISI was decisive, which, from the first moment, supported the request by making itself available to speed up the timetable in order to achieve this important goal. Same line with the Municipality of Sestriere from which we gathered great enthusiasm and support. Now we are working with the goal of giving all fans, and the protagonists, a truly unforgettable three days of skiing.”
“We were really nicely surprised and delighted,” adds Gianni Poncet, Mayor of Sestriere, “by this opportunity to double the Giant in Sestriere by increasing the number of race days scheduled in Sestriere from two to three. When Gualtiero Brasso contacted us to inform us about the opportunity, we immediately made ourselves available to the Organizing Committee to write another page of history for our municipality, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.”
Unchanged is the program of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Sestriere on February 22 and 23 with the best athletes still engaged in Giant Slalom, Saturday 22, and Slalom, Sunday 23. Two to three days absolutely not to be missed in Sestriere, on the snows of the Vialattea, to get your adrenaline pumping and support the competing athletes.