Alpine Junior World Championships kickoff Saturday

In the next month, skiracing.com will be bringing readers the latest news on all things junior racing related. The World Juniors start Friday. Walt Evans, USSA's national competition director, chimed in from the Pyrenees mountains in Spain where the competitions kickoff. Continue to check skiracing.com for the most up-to-date information on World Juniors and the Junior Olympics, which begin next weekend with the Jumping/Nordic Combined JOs in Ishpeming, Mich. 

IN THE NEXT MONTH, skiracing.com will be bringing readers the latest news on all things junior racing related. The World Juniors start Saturday. Walt Evans, USSA's national competition director, chimed in from the Pyrenees mountains in Spain where the competitions kickoff (see below). Continue to check skiracing.com for the most up-to-date information on World Juniors and the Junior Olympics, which begin next weekend with the Jumping/Nordic Combined JOs in Ishpeming, Mich.  

Good Morning,
What a great day here in the Pyrenees. Blue bird day with temperatures around freezing. Check out the sunrise (picture) from the Pentacosa training venue this morning.
    Today is our final day of preparation. The training, acclimation and warmup has been perfect. Congratulations to the staff for putting together an ideal environment leading up to the World Championships.
    The athletes are training GS/SL this morning, then will take the afternoon to fine tune equipment issues and get a conditioning session in with Jim and Josh. Tomorrow is a day off prior to the races getting started on the 23rd. A few of the athletes will need to test some DH equipment tomorrow, but it will be a very light day of activity.   

The tentative program:
Fri 2/22 teams arrive
Sat 2/23 Women WJC SG and parents reception
Sun 2/24 W/M DH training
Mon 2/25 W/M DH training
Tue 2/26 W training and M WJC DH
Wed 2/27 W WJC DH and M WJC SL
Thur 2/28 W WJC SL and M WJC SG
Fri 2/29 W WJC GS and M WJC GS — travel to Barcelona
Sat 3/1 Fly to USA

Travel safely everyone.

Walt

Walt Evans
National Competition Director