Mancuso Also Points To 2015 World Championships

Vail's Lindsey Vonn is not the only U.S. woman that has circled February of 2015 on her calendar. Double Vancouver Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso is also pointing to the Vail/Beaver Creek FIS Alpine Ski World Championships as a new milestone for her career.

“Since Vail has the World Champs," Mancuso told Shauna Farnell of fisalpine.com in Soelden, prior to the start of the upcoming World Cup season, "I want to race until then. I’m on another four-year cycle; forget the past, forget the injuries. I’m stoked I got two silvers in Whistler. It’s time to make these next four years really good and not have any super down moments.”

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VONN PLUGS VAIL/BEAVER CREEK 2015 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT FORUM ALPINUM IN SOELDEN

While the lion’s share of the conversation centered around goals and expectations for the coming winter, reigning women’s Overall World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn managed to get in a plug for Vail/Beaver Creek’s 2015 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships during the annual Forum Alpinum in Soelden, Austria.

The Forum Alpinum, a gathering of international journalists, top World Cup athletes, coaches and officials, has been held in Soelden for the past 13 years on the eve of the opening World Cup races of the new season on the Rettenbach Glacier.

Vonn, sharing the stage with men’s Overall World Cup winner Carlo Janka of Switzerland, answered questions posed by moderator Nick Fellows, while the assembled journalists from around the globe took notes.

Near the end of the interview, Fellows, a television commentator for Eurosport, said jokingly to Vonn, “I hear a rumor that the 2015 World Championships are in Vail. Have you heard anything about this?”

Vonn, sporting a huge grin, replied, “I was jumping up and down when I heard that Vail and Beaver Creek had won the World Championships. Depending on how I’m feeling and skiing, Vail in 2015 would be a great place to end my career. I’m not too old so you never know, but I do know that Vail/Beaver Creek 2015 is going to be a really cool World Championships.”

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2009 BIRDS OF PREY TRIFECTA WINNER CARLO JANKA OF SWITZERLAND HONORED AS 2010 SKIEUR D’OR’ AS WORLD CUP PREPARES TO OPEN IN AUSTRIA

A journey that started out with an historic three-race victory streak in Beaver Creek last December ended Thursday evening in Austria as Switzerland’s Carlo Janka was honored as the “Skieur d’ Or” (Golden Skier) by the members of the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS).

In addition to his Beaver Creek heroics, the Swiss, nicknamed "Iceman" by some of his colleagues due to his cool and strong demeanor, captured the Olympic gold medal in Giant Slalom in Vancouver, while also earning the season-long Overall World Cup crystal globe.

Janka is the 34th ski racer to receive the award since it’s creation by World Cup co-founder Serge Lang in 1963 and the first Swiss winner of the Skieur d’ Or since 1995. Last year’s award winner was Vail’s Lindsey Vonn, who finished second in the balloting this year.

Janka and the Swiss men will return to Beaver Creek December 3-5 for the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races, with the 2010 Birds of Prey playing host to a Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom competitions.

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Snowmaking Underway for 2010 Audi Birds of Prey

Snow making near the Brink for the 2010 Audi Birds of Prey. Photo courtesy Vail Resorts.

Last night snow making operations for the 2010 Audi Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week officially began. Currently snow making is underway from the Downhill Start to the Brink...

Snow showers and cooler temperatures are in the short term forecast for the weekend into early next week, which, we hope will help with early season course preparations.

Join us in Beaver Creek, December 3-5, for the 2010 Audi Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week. Complete information, schedules, and details can be found at http://www.bcworldcup.com/.

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FIS Confirms 2010 Audi Birds Of Prey Race Schedule

While the buzz over Vail and Beaver Creek’s 2015 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships victory this past June continues throughout the international ski community, the valley’s annual ski racing legacy was further bolstered recently as the World Cup Committee once again confirmed a three-race schedule for the Audi Birds of Prey this coming winter at the FIS Fall Meetings in Zurich.

Slated for December 3-5, the 2010 Audi Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week will include men’s Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom events. The schedule features Downhill on Friday, December 3; Super-G on Saturday, December 4; and Giant Slalom on Sunday, December 5.

The initial Audi Birds of Prey schedule for 2010 featured Men’s Downhill, Giant Slalom and Slalom, prior to an early summer agreement with France that sent the Beaver Creek Slalom to Val d’Isere in exchange for their Super-G.

The Audi Birds of Prey will once again mark the only men’s World Cup event in the United States. It will also provide U.S. ski racing fans with an early-season men’s preview of the 2011 World Alpine Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

For more information, visit http://www.bcworldcup.com/.

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