Tthis year, for the sixth time the FIS Alpine Ski World cup will begin to Solden (Tirol / Austria) on October 26th and 27th.
The high-level skiers and the organizers got ready for the World cup of this winter during several months. Wounded athletes make everything to recover quickly, the others test actively their last equipments of ski.
Many runners have their own program of training. However, the team spirit is very important.

Supporters also get ready for a new season of their favourite sport. What runner is the best encouraged? The fans are invited to bring to Solden musical instruments and the best fans club will see handing a price.
The public will be essentially Austrian and Swiss, but also Croatian (one waits for the supporters of Janica and Ivica Kostelic).
 
Solden's peculiarity likes in the fact that the women and the men run on the same hillside with the same begin and end of course; only the intermediate plans are different.
The track of World cup was drawn so that 10.000 to 15.000 spectators can observe the race from top to bottom.
 
During the journeys of Alpine skiing of Solden, the best free-riders of the world will meet in the city of Berlin for the World cup of Snowboard NOKIA FIS, on October 26th.
Solden, the Tirolean Glacier, the Tirol Werbung and the FIS will carry the magic of the winter in the German capital with a wintry and alive Tirolean landscape and a slope of ski made with glacier real snow.

Program of the Alpine Ski World Cup to Solden:
 
October 25th, 2002:
09:00 am - FIS FORUM ALPINUM
06:00 pm - Drawing lots of numbers ladies
 
October 26th, 2002:
09:45 am - 1st run of the ladies Giant
12:30 am - 2nd run of the ladies Giant
"O3 Glacier party":
05:00 pm - Parade of Fans' club
06:30 pm - Ceremony of the Giant ladies
06:45 pm - Drawing lots of numbers ladies
World Cup party:
07:00 pm - World Cup "Oktoberfest "
 
October 27th, 2002:
09:45 am - 1st run of the men Giant
12:30 am - 2nd run of the men Giant
Ceremony; "O3 Glacier Party " and fans Club Rewards

Prices for one person: ticket for 1 day: 11 euros; ticket for 2 days: 19 euros.
 
"Today we have 0 celsius on the World Cup glacier in Solden. Autum is here, followed by cold temperatures and the first snow. A look out of the window in the morning shows the mountain sprinkeled with snow. In 6 weeks, we celebrate the official skiwinter opening. Not only in Solden on the Rettenbach glacier, at the same time in Berlin, in the middle of the city centre."
says today Solden media-NewsLetter.
 
 
Alpine Racing Presse - 17 septembre 2002