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Sunny season opener in Soelden
The Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season opened in Soelden (AUT) last weekend, on 24th-25th October in beautiful early winter conditions. It's the 12th time since 1993 for Soelden to launch the season.
The two days preceding Saturday's ladies' giant slalom saw a sleuth of press conferences and more-or-less informal meeting points, including the FIS Forum Alpinum, the annual season opening information session for the ski journalists.
Action began Saturday morning with the ladies giant slalom. The start was delayed 30 minutes as piste crews completed final preparations of the Rettenbach glacier course due to 10 cm of new snow falling during Friday night. Reigning giant slalom World Cup champion Tanja Poutiainen (FIN) was victorious in the season opening race holding off Austria's Kathrin Zettel by just 0.01. The men took to the steep and challengin course on Sunday with Swiss veteran, Didier Cuche capturing the win by a sizable 0.60 over Ted Ligety of the United States and teammate Carlo Janka. For complete coverage of the opening events and the rest of the season, make sure to frequent www.fisalpine.com.
The Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup continues with the season's slalom opening in Levi (FIN) the weekend of 14th-15th November. The Levi Black racing course is already fully snow-covered with the final race preparations scheduled to begin next week and the official snow control set for 4th November 2009.