A trio of key members of the Beaver Creek/Vail 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships Bid Committee members are taking their show on the road this weekend as Ceil Folz, President of the Vail Valley Foundation; John Garnsey, Co-President of Vail Resorts Mountain Division and Erik Borgen, Foundation board member and owner of Kvitfjell Ski Resort in Norway are in Soelden, Austria for the opening World Cup races of the 2009-2010 campaign.
Folz, Garnsey and Borgen will be meeting with key FIS officials and lobby for votes in their effort to return the Championships to the Vail Valley in 2015. The World Championships vote will take place at the FIS Congress in Antalya, Turkey on June 3 of 2010. Vail and Beaver Creek have played host to the 1989 and 1999 World Championships, and will be vying for the three-peat against a pair of formidable opponents in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Cortina, Italy.
In addition to this team, two other 2015 bid committee members, former FIS council member Hank Tauber and Bill Marolt, President and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, will also be in Soelden for the races.
Men's and Women's Giant Slalom competitions are on tap for Soelden, with the ladies race on Saturday and the men's race on Sunday. Many of the men's speed teams have also been training on the glaciers around Soelden in preparation for the Audi Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week in Beaver Creek, December 2-6.
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