The International Ski Federation (FIS) has accepted the candidacy of Cortina D'Ampezzo to accommodate the Alpine World Ski Championships 2021. The Venetian locality returns to host an alpine skiing world championship after two editions of the world championships in 1932 and 1941 and after the 1956 Winter Olympic Games. The Fis announced that Cortina was the only candidate for the disciplines of alpine skiing. Only one candidate, that of the Slovenian Planica, also for the ski jumping world championships while for the Nordic skiing world championships there are three candidates: Planica (Slovenia), Trondheim (Norway) and Oberstdorf (Germany).
The last Italian resort to host an alpine skiing world championship had been Bormio in 2005. The following year it was then the turn of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics. “We are finally reaping the fruits of a long and serious work. An historic result”, said the mayor of Cortina Andrea Franceschi after the Venetian citizen had suffered 4 consecutive failures for the 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 world championships.
"By accepting our candidacy as the only one, the Fis confirmed the goodness of our project - continues Franceschi - we had been unjustly penalized by the exclusion for the 2019 championship, now we are ready".
