The IOC Executive Board has selected only one of the three declared candidates for this edition, that of the French Alps. A gamble won in record time for a project to be finalized in the coming months, with many challenges at stake. The French application ticked many boxes: 95% of existing facilities, the smallest possible surface area - 500 km from north to south all the same. The only uncertainty is about the speed rink oval. The one used for the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville no longer exists as such.
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Austria s Lukas Feurstein clinched victory in the men s giant slalom to deny Giovanni Franzoni of Italy a second gold medal at the Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Bansko.
In a reversal of the result in yesterday s super-G race, where Franzoni pipped the Austrian to the title, Feurstein topped the podium in a combined time of 1min 45.33sec.
The 19-year-old finished 0.72sec clear of his Italian rival, who finished 14th in the giant slalom at the senior World Championships in Cortina d Ampezzo last month, to take gold at the Bulgarian venue.
Franzoni was forced to settle for the silver medal, ending the competition 0.16 clear of Kaspar Kindem of Norway after clocking 1:46.05.