Eurosport commentator thanks MTA for “amazing job” in Bakuriani for Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships
International and domestic media covers the World Championship in Bakuriani for about 160 million TV viewers, including Europe’s largest sports TV network Eurosport. Photo via Brad Jay/Facebook
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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.
If you have a chance, come here to Bakuriani, Georgia, a beautiful place. [...] they invested so much in the infrastructure here”, Jay noted.
On Thursday at the World Championships, which brings together about 700 athletes from 42 countries competing in 30 categories for seven disciplines, Switzerland’s Noe Roth claimed a gold medal, while American Quinn Dehlinger got the silver and Chinese Longxiao Yang earned a bronze medal in the Aerials competition.
Photo via Georgian Ski Federation
Among women Fanyu Kong, representing China, won the competition, the silver medal went to British Danielle Scott and the bronze to Ukrainian Anastasiya Novosad, the Georgian Ski Federation said.
In other contests, Italy’s Aaron March and Nadya Ochner claimed a gold medal in the mixed Parallel Slalom contest on Wednesday and won their first World Championships medals in their careers.
The silver for the contest went to Austria’s Prommegger Andreas and Shoeffman Sabine, and Switzerland’s Dario Pebble and Suck Julie claimed the bronze.
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Photo via Georgian Mountain Trails Agency
Ski cross and snowboard cross competitions will be run on Didveli, before the competition closes on March 5.
Domestic authorities ensured infrastructure for the event by installing three new cable cars, a 29 kilometre-long artificial snowmaking system and two artificial water reservoirs in the area.
Photo via Georgian Ski Federation
International and domestic media covers the World Championship in Bakuriani for about 160 million TV viewers, including Europe’s largest sports TV network Eurosport.
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 Georgian Government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Johan Eliasch, the President of the International Ski Federation, on Saturday said Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani had “a lot of potential” to host “more events” as part of the World Championships and praised the quality of ski slopes and snow in the resort.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Johan Eliasch, the President of the International Ski Federation on Saturday discussed the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, hosted in Georgia’s winter resort town of Bakuriani.
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.
The ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Georgia’s resort of Bakuriani and plans for hosting the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Festival in the country were discussed on Thursday in a meeting between Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and EOC President Spyros Capralos.
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”.
Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski Federation, on Saturday praised the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani as the “best tournament” held with “very good outcome” and stressed Georgia had everything to become a winter sports destination.
The Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships closed in Georgia’s ski resort of Bakuriani on Saturday with Tess Ledeux of France and the Troy Podmilsak of the United States earning the final gold medals in the big air showcase.
Georgia’s popular ski resorts of Bakuriani and Gudauri have been marked as permanent hosts in the competition calendar of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, enabling the destinations to host stages of World Cup events running under the body annually. The Mountain Trails Agency of Georgia on Wednesday said the two locations would be among 11 resorts around the world hosting 19 events of the 2023-2024 FIS Ski Cross World Cup calendar.
Training and educational bases operating in all four seasons will be launched in north-west Georgia’s mountainous Svaneti region after the country’s Mountain Trails Agency and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation signed a deal for the project on Thursday.
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.
Georgia’s north-western highland Svaneti region will host the Freeride World Tour Pro qualifying, a series of sporting events for freeskiers and snowboard freeriders, for the first time, the Mountain Trails Agency said on Tuesday.
Nicolas Hale-Woods, the founder of Freeride World Tour, praised Georgian authorities' preparations for hosting the qualifying rounds for Freeride World Tour Pro, a series of sporting events for freeskiers and snowboard freeriders, by calling it “extraordinary”.