Eurosport commentator recommends Bakuriani as “amazing place” to visit
While commentating on the event for Europe’s largest sports TV network that operates in 54 countries, Jay told viewers if “[Bakuriani is] not on your bucket list, it needs to be”. Photo: Mountain Trails Agency.
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Brad Jay, a professional sports commentator and announcer at Eurosport, on Saturday recommended Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani, which is hosting the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championship, as an “amazing place” to visit.
While commentating on the event for Europe’s largest sports TV network that operates in 54 countries, Jay told viewers if “[Bakuriani is] not on your bucket list, it needs to be”.
He also mentioned the efforts and resources used by Georgian authorities to host the Championships, noting it meant “they really want to show the best results”.
Running through March 5, the competition brings together about 700 athletes from 42 countries competing in 30 categories for seven disciplines, Georgia's Ministry of Economy said.
Georgia’s effort for providing infrastructure for the event has seen three new cable cars, a 29 kilometre-long artificial snowmaking system and two artificial water reservoirs installed in Bakuriani.
Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
Athletes, teams and media are also hosted in the Championship Village set up in the town under a ₾270 million ($101 mln) expenditure by the Government.
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation congress granted Georgia the hosting rights for the World Championships in 2018, with the tournament organised with the support of the Georgian Government, the country’s Mountain Trails Agency and Ski Federation.
Bakuriani 2023 - the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships officially opened with a concert on Saturday in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani, which will run through March 5, hosting about 700 athletes from 42 countries competing in 30 categories for seven disciplines.
The quality of ski tracks, infrastructure, and relevant equipment in Georgia’s ski resort of Bakuriani, arranged for the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, is “identical” to European standards, Irakli Burchuladze, the Director of Georgian Mountain Trails Agency told agenda.ge on Saturday.
The work carried out by the country’s authorities on preparing the winter resort of Bakuriani for hosting the FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships affords an opportunity for Georgia to “decently” host the Championships, the Georgian Deputy Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili said on Wednesday.
Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski Federation, on Tuesday said he was expecting to see a “high-level hosting” of the upcoming Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani.
In one of the first contests of the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships hosted in Georgia’s winter resort town of Bakuriani, Poland’s Oskar Kwiatkowski and Japan’s Tsubaki Miki earned gold in the Parallel Giant Slalom on Saturday.
A 13-member team of injured Georgian servicemembers will feature in the Air Force Trials - a Paralympic-style competitive event starting this month in the United States - for the first time, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
About 40 representatives of ski resorts from seven countries on Wednesday reviewed the infrastructure in the Georgian ski resort of Bakuriani during the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in the location, the Georgian Economy Ministry said.
Brad Jay, a professional sports commentator and announcer at Eurosport, on Thursday expressed his gratitude toward the Georgian Mountain Trails Agency for the “amazing job” done in the country’s winter resort town of Bakuriani, which has been hosting the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships.
Representatives of the International Ski Federation have described Georgia’s hosting of the ongoing FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani as “impressive”.
Georgia deserves a “round of applause” for the level of its hosting of the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani, Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, said in comments released by the country’s Mountain Trails Agency on Thursday.
Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani will host the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival involving over a thousand young athletes, after a formal agreement on the tournament was signed in Tbilisi on Thursday.
Georgian Government’s efforts in the country’s hosting of the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboards and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani have been recognised by Dean Gosper, a member of the Council of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, who said the tournament represented “one of the outstanding World Championships”.
International delegates have inspected potential locations for hosting the Freeride World Tour, a series of sporting events for freeskiers and snowboard freeriders, in Georgia, the country’s Mountain Trails Agency said on Tuesday.