The series continues. After having already removed World Cup stages in bobsleigh, luge, skeleton, speed skating and short-track from the international winter sports calendar, China is attacking alpine skiing. According to the International Ski Federation (FIS), citing the Chinese National Ski Association and the Beijing 2022 Winter Games organizing committee, the women's downhill and super-G planned at the Yanqing Olympic venue, on February 27 and 28, 2021, cannot take place. In question, the “ COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions put in place by Chinese authorities, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all participants. » The FIS specifies that it is awaiting official and definitive confirmation from China, but the mass seems already said. Both races were to serve as pre-Olympic tests for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Last winter, a men's downhill and super G, planned in Yanqing, had already been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. This season, the World Speed Skating Championships were moved from Beijing to the Netherlands. As for the final of the Grand Prix of figure skating, also scheduled for Beijing, it has been postponed to a later date, which is still unknown.
