Mastering the Birds of Prey with Kjetil Jansrud and Steven Nyman - Behind the Scenes

Some two months before the official Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Vail Beaver Creek World Championships. Beaver Creek hosted the final test events for what will certainly be the biggest event of the year.
During the three days the men raced on the Birds of Prey, the Organizer of the upcoming World Championships showed they were ready to pull together an exciting event for both skiers and fans making everyone eager to be back at the Colorado resort in February 2015.
Our Behind the Scenes crew talked with US athletes Marco Sullivan, Ted Ligety, Austrian olympic Champion Matthias Mayer and Norwegian current Overall leader Kjetil Jansrud about why they love racing in the US, their expectations for the World Champs and what makes this place one you want to keep coming back to over and over again.
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of Alpine Skiing competitions staged annually. It is considered the premier competition in alpine ski racing together with the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games and the biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Some experts event consider winning the World Cup to be athletically a more valuable title than winning gold at the Olympic Winter Games or the World Championships, since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several events throughout the season, and not just in one race. Today, the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races are held primarily at famous ski resorts in the European Alps, along with regular stops in Scandinavia, North America, and Far East Asia. Competitors attempt to score a maximum of points during the season in five events: slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and super combined. The fifth event, super-combined, was introduced in 2005 and generally consists of a shorter downhill race and a one-run slalom. Sometimes the downhill is replaced by a super-G. Alpine was added to the Olympic winter schedule in 1936.
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