The Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup, originally scheduled for 21 January in Megeve, France has been cancelled due to weather conditions and brought forward by one week to occur earlier in Watles, Italy, which already had a World Cup scheduled on January 15.
Time flies, as it will this year for Australia’s Olympic hopefuls ahead of the Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, Korea on February 9 next year.
A team of thirty athletes have been selected to become Australia’s first event competitors at an Asian Winter Games when they hit the ice and snow in Sapporo in February.
A challenging start to the para-Alpine World Cup in St Moritz has not deterred the Australian team who bounced back to achieve more good results to round out the year.
Australian Para-Alpine skiers Mitchell Gourley and Melissa Perrine have put their competition on notice, with five medals between them at the first World Cup of the season in Kuhtai, Austria.
The winter wonderland weekend continued with a flurry of stellar results in the Aerial Skiing World Cup in China today, just a day after Danielle Scott claimed Silver in the opening event of the season.
Saturday ended how it began, with Australians on the podium, when Danielle Scott won silver in the Ladies Aerials World Cup in the season opening event in Beida Lake, China.
The winter wonderland dream results continue for Australia with Belle Brockhoff and Alex (Chumpy) Pullin winning Gold and Bronze respectively in the opening World Cup of the Snowboard Cross season in Montafon, Austria overnight
A fit and healthy Australian Snowboard Cross team are ready for the first World Cup of the new season, as they take to the snow for qualification in Montafon, Austria tonight.Â