— Published February 10, 2021

Aspen will have its share of the Worlds

Ski

It's done. Finally. The International Ski Federation (FIS) has finished the puzzle of the 2021 Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing Worlds. She announced that she had awarded the American resort of Aspen, in Colorado, the organization of the world meeting for the disciplines of big air, halfpipe and slopestyle. It will take place from March 10 to 16, 2021. With this decision, the FIS has now found a site for each of the disciplines, which were initially to be grouped together in Zhangjiakou, China, for the 2021 Worlds in XL size one year before the Olympic Games. winter of Beijing 2022. After the decision of the Chinese authorities to cancel the world meeting, like all other international competitions planned in China, FISA divided the disciplines into four different countries: Sweden (Idre Fjäll) for the skicross and snowboard cross (this week), Slovenia (Rogla) for snowboarding (March 1 and 2), Kazakhstan (Almaty) for moguls and jumping (March 8 to 11), and finally the United States ( Aspen) for big air, halfpipe and slopestyle (March 10 to 16).