Agreement signed between FISI and the new organizing committee, which will make its debut on the Stelvio on December 28 and 29 and will be the local point of reference for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Alpine Skiing and Ski Mountaineering competitions
The Stelvio Slope Ski World Cup organization returns home to Bormio: after years of FISI management, a local committee is back in the control room. It is the new Bormio Foundation, headed by Matteo Bonfà, which on December 28 and 29 will be confronted for the first time with the organization of the highly anticipated Alpine Ski World Cup stages, with a Super-G and a Downhill on the beloved and feared slope of the Stelvio slope.
In recent days the protocol of understanding was signed between FISI itself and the new organizing committee, which thus looks forward to a year and a half of great challenges and equally great excitement. In addition, in fact, to guiding the World Cup on the Stelvio in its next phase, Fondazione Bormio will be the local organizational reference point for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic competitions, when the five-circle trials of Men’s Alpine Skiing and Ski Mountaineering, the latter discipline making its absolute debut in an Olympic event, will land in Alta Valtellina.
Not coincidentally, Bormio Foundation will also be in the control room for the Ski Mountaineering test event scheduled on the Stelvio slope in early 2025, exactlyFebruary 21-23 , itself part of the World Cup calendar for the discipline.
Bonfà: "A new phase with Bormio as a protagonist."
“We are grateful to FISI for carrying on the history of this race in recent years; to pick up the baton is a pride and a great responsibility,” said President Bonfà, joined on the new board by Giacomo Baumgartner, Giuseppe Bonseri, Dario Da Zanche and Pierluigi Negri.
“We want that around the Bormio Foundation, and the great challenge of the World Cup and Olympic Games, we gather excellence and expressions of a fantastic territory, which thanks to these stages must get to express and tell its best story.”
To look to the present and the future, the new team of Fondazione Bormio is an ideal mix of established skills, new insights and expressions of the different souls of the territory that wants to increasingly reflect and recognize itself in its major events, taking them beyond the track to generate positive short- and long-term impacts and synergies.
In the technical area, Fondazione Bormio is counting on the continuity and experience of Omar Galli, already the deus ex machina of the Stelvio slope for many years, while the marketing and communication area passes under the coordination of Veronica Mazzola, director of the territorial marketing body of the Bormio destination (Società Multiservizi Alta Valle), to underline this reinvigorated link between big events and the all-round territorial strategy.
Presentation in Milan on Nov. 19, track date on Dec. 28 and 29
The new Bormio Foundation team will present news and themes of the upcoming World Cup and the other organizational challenges of the winter season at a media meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, at the institutional headquarters of Regione Lombardia.
Instead, the FIS World Cup 2024/2025 program on the Stelvio slope will open on Thursday, December 26 and Friday, December 27 with two days of training ahead of the Downhill on Saturday, December 28. Sunday, December 29, concluding the program will be the Super-G, once again on the Stelvio slope.
In 2023, the downhill was won by Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin ahead of World Cup dominator Marco Odermatt, who took his revenge 24 hours later by dominating between the gates in the Super-G.
