Ski World Cup 2025 in Saalbach: Spectacular opening despite confusing moments!

Ski World Cup 2025 in Saalbach: Spectacular opening despite confusing moments!

Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Österreich - The 48th World Ski Championships started in Saalbach-Hinterglemm with an opening ceremony today, which caused mixed reactions. At 3:10 p.m., FIS President Johan Eliasch spoke the solemn words in the target stadium before the FIS fanfare sounded. Fans of the Ski World Cup, which remembered the spectacular show program from 2013 in Schladming, were disappointed with the rather simple opening. Both vocals and the placement of the ceremony during the first competition-the parallel team competition-met with amazement. Observations in social networks show an angry shit storm against the event, since not all of the musical interludes and TV moderation estimated, as oe24.at reported.

Overall, the SKI World Cup is distributed over eleven competitions that take place until February 16, with the team combinations of women and men introduce new format changes. These changes include removing the alpine combination in singles and deleting the parallel competitions. Instead, players compete in mixed teams of two, which was tested at the 2023 World Cups. The concentrated implementation at the Zwölferkogel is intended to optimize the logistics of the event, as the organizers emphasize. The World Cup could be important for the Austrian athletes, since they have been taking place at home since 2013 and large hopes such as Vincent Kriechmayr and Cornelia Hütter are in competition, so Br.de .