Now winter sports begin

So far, only the giant slalomists have competed in a race in the Ski World Cup. Now, a good month after the Alpine season opener in Söden, there is a fight for World Cup points at four winter sports resorts. But here too there are still question marks.

The skeleton drivers will make the first World Cup decision this week on Friday, provided the races in Sigulda go ahead as normal. As it became known on Tuesday, there is There are several corona cases in the bobsleigh and skeleton camp . If everything still goes according to plan Patrick Baumgartner make its season debut on Sunday in Sigulda. The 25-year-old from Palatinate is Italy's great hope in the two-man bobsleigh. Skeleton driver Manuel Schwärzer, however, is not at the start in Latvia .

Patrick Baumgartner will be in action in the two-man bobsleigh. © APA / EXPA/STEFAN ADELSBERGER

Ski jumpers also travel to Eastern Europe Alex Insam and Daniel Moroder , which starts the season in Wisla, Poland. The World Cup program begins for the people of Val Gardena on Friday with the qualification, the individual competition will take place on Sunday and the team competition on Friday. Freestylers in Stubai, Alpine in the far north The freestylers, on the other hand, had a significantly shorter journey Ralph Welponer and Silvia Bertagna , who have already been in the Stubaital for a few days. They open the weekly program for South Tyrolean winter sports enthusiasts on Friday with the qualification in the slopestyle discipline on the Stubai Glacier. They are fighting for a ticket to the final on Saturday afternoon.

Without South Tyrolean participation, but with Italy's overall World Cup winner Federica Brignone and Returnee Mikael Shiffrin There will be two women's slalom races this weekend. The venue is Finland's largest winter sports center Levi, where the athletes have a sophisticated safety concept best slope conditions Erwarten.

If points are fought for at four World Cup venues in the coming days, the field will expand significantly again on the last weekend in November: Biathletes, combined skiers, freestyle snowboarders, luge athletes and cross-country skiers will also be in action. This week's World Cup program: Tags Place Sport Discipline Time of day Friday Stubai Freestyle Qualified slopestyle women 10.00 Friday Sigulda Skeleton Women 10.00 Friday Stubai Freestyle Qualified slopestyle men 12.35 Friday Sigulda Skeleton Men 15.00 Friday Wisla Ski jumping Qualified men 18.00 Saturday Sigulda Bob Two women 9.00 Saturday Levi Ski Slalom women, 1st run 10.15 Saturday Stubai Freestyle Slopestyle women/men 11.30 Saturday Sigulda Bob Two men 12.45 Saturday Levi Ski Slalom women, 2st run 13.15 Saturday Wisla Ski jumping Team men 16.00 Sunday Levi Ski Slalom women, 1st run 10.15 Sunday Levi Ski Slalom women, 2st run 13.15 Sunday Sigulda Bob Two men 14.30 Sunday Wisla Ski jumping Single men 16.00

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Now winter sports begin

Next weekend, winter athletes from several World Cup disciplines will be competing for the first time this season, including a handful of South Tyroleans. Here we provide an overview.

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