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Let's Party the End of the Season Away - Meribel Finals AUDI Party - Behind the Scenes

Mar 16, 2019·Alpine Skiing

It has become a tradition, on Thursday evening at each World Cup Finals the best skiers in the world come together to party away another successful season! This party has become a unique opportunity for the athletes to re-live some of the most memorable moments seen this season and award their favorites by voting at the Audi Quattro Fun Awards. This year the categories awarded were: Run of the Year, Crash/Save of the year, Best World Championships Performance, Comeback of the year. Check out the video to see who took home the awards and how Lindsey Vonn, Kjetil Jansrud, Henrik Kristoffersen, Felix Neureuther and other top skiers enjoyed a relaxing night out. 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

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