{"id":2445111,"date":"2019-06-08T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/international-ski-federation-announces-womens-world-cup-circuit-starting-in-2020-21-season\/"},"modified":"2019-06-08T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:16:00","slug":"international-ski-federation-announces-womens-world-cup-circuit-starting-in-2020-21-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/international-ski-federation-announces-womens-world-cup-circuit-starting-in-2020-21-season\/","title":{"rendered":"International Ski Federation announces women\u2019s World Cup circuit starting in 2020-21 season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tara Geraghty-Moats skis in the cross country portion of the women\u2019s Nordic combined competition at the Steamboat Springs Continental Cup on Dec. 14, 2018. On Friday, the International Ski Federation announced a women\u2019s World Cup circuit starting in the 2020-21 season.<\/strong>
Leah Vann\/Steamboat Today<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 Women\u2019s Nordic combined is seeing its dreams come to life.<\/p>\n

The International Ski Federation announced on Friday that there will be a women\u2019s World Cup circuit starting with the 2020-21 season. The season will culminate with a first-ever appearance in the FIS World Ski Championships in Oberstordf, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201c2021 has been on the calendar and I\u2019m really happy we\u2019re arriving on time,\u201d USA Nordic executive director Billy Demong said. \u201cThe International Ski Federation has been very diligent over the past five years of our eight-year strategic plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demong said the plan originally made adding women\u2019s Nordic combined to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics the goal. But last July, the International Olympic Committee decided against it, citing that the competition was not at a level of participation that it should be.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s Continental Cup series started in the 2017-18 season but featured a more robust calendar this 2018-19 season, hosting women from 17 different countries in 11 events. The women\u2019s Junior World Championships also made its debut in the 2019 season, providing younger competitors a chance to compete internationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing we\u2019ve been missing with potential generations of women\u2019s Nordic combined winners is: there\u2019s not a carat,\u201d Demong said. \u201cThey could only compete until the junior national level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2020-21 World Cup will travel to five locations for 13 events that coincide with the men\u2019s World Cup, to make resources easily shared and available. The season will open Dec. 13-15, 2020, in Park City, Utah. The women are currently slated to compete in the FIS Summer Grand Prix tour for the second time in Germany this summer.<\/p>\n

Steamboat Springs hosted the first-ever women\u2019s Nordic combined Continental Cup in America on Dec. 14, 2018. The event hosted 15 women from around the world for two days of competition. Steamboat has a long history of being a hub for men\u2019s Nordic combined, and is naturally coming into the same role for women.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving such a strong history and tradition in not only men\u2019s Nordic combined, but in women\u2019s, just balances us out,\u201d Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Nordic combined director Todd Wilson said. \u201cThat means, for a number of our athletes, that new opportunities are ahead. I hope Steamboat athletes will get those first World Cup starts.\u201d<\/p>\n

USA Nordic had three competitors in this year\u2019s Continental Cup, including New York\u2019s Tara Geraghty-Moats and Steamboat\u2019s own Annika Malacinski, 17, and Tess Arnone, 15. Geraghty-Moats won 10 of 11 Continental Cup events last year and is considered a pioneer in women\u2019s Nordic combined.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only hope the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will notice that the sport is now at a high level,\u201d Geraghty-Moats said in a press release for USA Nordic. \u201cIncluding women in the FIS World Cup will help the women get sponsors. However, it will still be extremely hard to make a career out of the sport until it\u2019s in the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Malacinski and Arnone are currently on USA Nordic\u2019s team with Geraghty-Moats, while Steamboat\u2019s Alexa Brabec, 14, is a member of the Junior National team. All of them can now strive for the opportunity to compete in the first-ever World Championships in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really cool to think that, especially if I would take it to the limit and go to the world championships, that I would be one of the first women to do that ever,\u201d Malacinski said. \u201cI\u2019d love to be a part of that history.\u201d<\/p>\n

lvann@steamboatpilot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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