SOELDEN, Austria Just a fraction of the talk in the buildup to this weekend’s Alpine skiing World Cup opening has been about who will win the races or if Mikaela Shiffrin and Marco Odermatt are going to dominate the season again. The main topic is whether in times of global warming a winter sport
Amid growing environmental concerns surrounding the sport, the World Cup has its traditional start with two giant slaloms on a glacier in Austria coming up, with the women racing on Saturday and the men on Sunday. Low altitude is not the problem in Soelden with its start at three kilometers above sea level — but enough snow is.
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