Getting ready for the 2014/15 World Cup season - Behind the Scenes - Soelden

Sometimes it takes a lot of hard work and a just the right amount of luck to pull off the perfect event and this is just what happened at the season Opener in Soelden. After weeks of warm weather, a few days prior to the World Cup races a massive snowstorm hit Soelden giving Organizers plenty of work in order to clear the roads and slope and put together an amazing weekend event. Luckily, the weather calmed down just in time to allow for the perfect preparation of the slope and an two amazing races took place under clear blue skies! Our Behind the Scenes team was there to document it all! The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of Alpine Skiing competitions staged annually. It is considered the premier competition in alpine ski racing together with the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games and the biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Some experts event consider winning the World Cup to be athletically a more valuable title than winning gold at the Olympic Winter Games or the World Championships, since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several events throughout the season, and not just in one race. Today, the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races are held primarily at famous ski resorts in the European Alps, along with regular stops in Scandinavia, North America, and Far East Asia. Competitors attempt to score a maximum of points during the season in five events: slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and super combined. The fifth event, super-combined, was introduced in 2005 and generally consists of a shorter downhill race and a one-run slalom. Sometimes the downhill is replaced by a super-G. Alpine was added to the Olympic winter schedule in 1936. For further information about FIS Alpine visit: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fisalpine Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fisalpine