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Freeride will have its own World Championships

Published on November 26, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. / Modified on November 26, 2024 at 8:50 p.m.

Nicolas Hale-Woods doesn’t tell stories. Nearly thirty years after the first edition of the Verbier Xtreme which he co-founded, freeride remains “a niche sport”. But a niche whose walls we push a little further each year.

Two years after the integration of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) into the International Ski Federation (FIS), the creation of World Championships like those in alpine skiing was announced on Tuesday at a press conference, in cross-country skiing, freestyle… “The event constitutes our best product in each of our disciplines,” underlined the general secretary of the FIS, Michel Vion. I am very confident that this will also work for freeride, where everything is always very well organized.”

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