Swiss Ladies Summer Training at "The End of the World" - Behind the Scenes - Womens

Fisalpine followed the Swiss Ladies' Technical team at their dry-land camp in Magglingen, Switzerland. The modern training facility offers the perfect setting for building up strength for the upcoming season.

Surrounded by breathtaking views, the ladies focus on a variety of tasks, including athletics, coordination training, ball games, weightlifting and other. The Magglingen facility, known also as "The End of the World" is one of the most well equipped sports centers Switzerland, offering most sports teams the best possible environment to get in the right shape for the season.

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.

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FIS explanation:
As the governing body of international skiing and snowboarding, FIS manages the Olympic disciplines of Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding, including setting the international competition rules. Through its 116 member nations, more than 6'500 FIS ski and snowboard competitions are staged annually.