Following close to a year of input, study, investigation and deliberation, organizers of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships rolled out their final plan for competition and festival venues for the Championships on Tuesday evening at the weekly meeting of the Vail Town Council.
When the world returns to the Vail Valley in just four short years, Vail will serve as the hub of all World Championships’ Ceremonies and Festival Events, while Beaver Creek will play host to all of the racing action.
When the world returns to the Vail Valley in just four short years, Vail will serve as the hub of all World Championships’ Ceremonies and Festival Events, while Beaver Creek will play host to all of the racing action.
Under this plan, Vail’s Golden Peak will play host to Opening Ceremonies, all official medal ceremonies, the Festival Stadium with nightly functions and snowboard and freestyle exhibition events, along with the men’s Qualification Races for Giant Slalom and Slalom and national team training. Vail Village will also come alive with street concerts and parties, a big screen stadium, national team hospitality houses and athlete lodging.
The 13 days of training and racing will take place in Beaver Creek, complete with a new women’s Downhill racecourse adjacent to the current Birds of Prey men’s course, and an expanded Red Tail Finish Stadium. The ladies’ Giant Slalom and Slalom will be contested on a new course running down Raven Ridge that will also finish in the new Red Tail Stadium.
Plans for the new women’s Downhill course, the Raven Ridge expansion and the Red Tail enhancements have been submitted to the U.S. Forest Service for approval. If all goes well, the plan is to have everything complete by the fall of 2013.
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are scheduled from February 3 through February 15 of 2015. Athletes from over 70 nations are expected to attend, with an international television audience of close to 1 billion people.
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