Lake Louise Loses All Its World Cup Races

20th July 2023

Last modified on July 28th, 2023

The International Ski & Snowboard Federation, FIS, has removed men’s speed races that were provisionally scheduled for late November.

It said it had done so “due to logistical challenges.”

Women’s speed races were not even on the original schedule that was announced in May.

“Unfortunately, the economic model for the Lake Louise World Cup has been challenging the past few years,” said the President and CEO of Alpine Canada, Therese Brisson.

“We’ve been working with various stakeholders since last season to try to find solutions and despite some progress, we have run out of time to confirm the funding early enough to execute the event for the upcoming 2023-24 season.

“We remain committed to a men’s speed event in Western Canada and will turn our attention to identifying solutions for the 2024-25 season and beyond.”

FIS said there is no replacement planned for the men’s Lake Louise races this coming season.

Alpine Canada had already replaced the traditional women’s downhills at Lake Louise with a pair of women’s World Cup giant slalom races December 2nd – 3rd in Mont Tremblant in Quebec.

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Lake Louise has a rich history of alpine ski racing

Lake Louise was Lindsey Vonn’s most successful venue.

She earned 18 of her 82 World Cup wins in the resort.

People began calling the venue Lake Lindsey.

In 2018 the downhill run was renamed “Lake Lindsey Way”.

Bode Miller and Mikaela Shiffrin earned their first World Cup super-G and downhill victories at Lake Louise.

The US skier, Picabo Street, also had her first World Cup downhill victory in the Canadian resort.

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