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Sierra Nevada opens the summer season with a concert by rock band Apache

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A concert by the band Apache, in collaboration with the Granada Music and Dance Festival, opens this Saturday (21.30h in the Plaza de Andalucía, free) the summer programme in the ski and mountain resort, which will continue with mountain activities, electric bikes, sports, music and astro-tourism activities until 25 August.
&nbsp;The recital by the legendary cover band is already a classic at the start of summer in Sierra Nevada. Hours before the Apache start with their repertoire of the best pop rock of all time, the summer facilities and activities on the great mountain of Granada will already be up and running.
&nbsp;Two ski lifts (the Al-Andalus gondola lift and the Veleta chairlift) will take users from the 2,100 metres of Pradollano to 3,000 metres above sea level, from where some of the most attractive mountain trails in the Sierra Nevada, such as the route to the Veleta, Tajos de la Virgen, Elorrieta or Mulhacén and the excursions to the lagoons around the resort (Yeguas, Lagunillos de la Virgen or La Caldera) will start.
&nbsp;At the same time, the Mirlo Blanco activity park will open with facilities for children and families, the swimming pool at the Montebajo sports club and the guided routes on electric bicycles.

El programa de astronomía volverá a girar sobre las observaciones del amanecer y atardecer desde el Veleta, visitas al observatorio astronómico, excursiones para la observación de la luna o el cielo nocturno y las jornadas de observación de las Perseidas (9 y 10 de agosto) como fechas más destacadas.

La oferta cultural se completará con el festival de rock Sierra Nevada por Todo lo Alto, que volverá a ser el plato fuerte del programa musical (23 y 24 de agosto). El viernes 23 tendrá como cabeza de cartel al grupo Mujeres y también actuaran Alerta Cross y Berrinches. El sábado es el turno de Hins, Jornada B y Red Soul Community.
&nbsp;La festividad de la Virgen de las Nieves de Pradollano, del 2 al 5 de agosto con la tradicional romería a los Tajos de la Virgen la madrugada del 4 de&nbsp;agosto.
&nbsp;La Cicloturista al Veleta (cicloturismo) y el Subida Internacional Pico Veleta (ultrafondo) componen el programa deportivo del verano&nbsp;2024.
&nbsp;Durante el verano, un buen número de restaurantes y establecimientos de alojamiento garantizarán el disfrute estival de Sierra Nevada, donde el paisaje de alta montaña y las suaves temperaturas volverán a ser sus grandes atractivos.

Hinds and Mujeres, headliners of the Sierra Nevada Por Todo lo Alto Festival

The SIERRA NEVADA POR TODO LO ALTO Festival, the highest altitude musical event of the summer in Spain, has a full line-up for its 14th edition which, as always free of charge, will be held on 23rd and 24th August in the Plaza de Andalucía in Pradollano.
Three bands per night and a morning children's programme dedicated to the little ones make up the combination of rock, mountains and family for one of the most unique events on the national festival scene. 
The first of the most important names to come up to the mountain this year is one of the female rock bands that the organisers have had their eye on for years and that had been impossible to book due to scheduling: THE HINDS. In this 14th edition of the SIERRA NEVADA POR TODO LO ALTO Festival, the guitar rock of one of our most international bands will be playing at the top.
The other leading group is MUJERES. MUJERES is part of the emotional memory of several generations: of those who, like them, went back to striped T-shirts and old instruments. Once again they are back with new songs.
The Granadian festival, which is characterised as a family festival to be enjoyed in the middle of nature, cannot forget its musical workshops for children given by the music school Gabba Hey, which are held every year in morning sessions and divided by age. These workshops are usually sold out in minutes. Very soon we will be announcing the dates and instruments chosen for this year's workshops, remembering that places are limited. With the sponsorship of San Miguel beers, the SIERRA NEVADA POR TODO LO ALTO will once again be one of the most awaited festivals to say goodbye to the summer. 
FRIDAY 23RD: WOMEN - ALBERTA CROSS - TANTRUMS SATURDAY 24TH: THE HINDS - JORDANA B - RED SOUL COMMUNITY
*entry is free, times to be announced soon. - Organised by: Cetursa Sierra Nevada-Junta de Andalucía-Ayuntamiento de Monachil.                                      - Sponsor: Cervezas San Miguel - Collaborators: Apartahotel Trevenque / Apartamentos Inside Plaza / Apartamentos Monte Gorbea
- Media Collaborators: Mondo Sonoro, Diario Granada Hoy / Cadena Élite y VivaPop 
More information: www.sierranevada.es

Sierra Nevada faces the last week of the season with 19 kilometres of skiable slopes

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Sierra Nevada faces the last week of the winter season with 19 skiable kilometres concentrated in the Veleta and Borreguiles areas with the usual winter timetable (8.30am to 4.45pm). The snow, with thicknesses in the open areas ranging from 20 to 90 centimetres, is of spring quality. Until Sunday 28 April, the last day of the 2023/24 season, five ski lifts will be open (Al Ándalus gondola lift, Emile Allais and Veleta chairlifts, Dauro II carpet and Zayas chairlift) which will provide access to this ski offer, the only one of its kind in Southern Europe. The resort will also keep facilities open for non-skiers in Pradollano (Mirlo sledge) and Borreguiles (snow slides). Likewise, Sierra Nevada will offer very special prices on ski passes and access to the underground car park for this last week. On the other hand, the resort closed the season's sports calendar this weekend with the celebration of the Asogaf charity trophy (moguls) and the Fernando Rivera Memorial, in ski mountaineering. In addition, the riders of the national team continue in this last week with their post-season concentration with morning training sessions on the Cordón slope, in the Veleta area.

Sierra Nevada faces the first weekend of April with all the areas open

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Sierra Nevada faces the first weekend of April with more than 90 skiable kilometres, with slopes in all areas of the resort, the entire operating vertical drop (1,200 metres), up to two and a half metres thick, and an extensive sports and music programme in what is one of the busiest and liveliest moments of the 2023/24 winter season.  After last weekend's snowfalls and strong winds, the resort's technical services have recovered the offer prior to the passage of the Nelson squall, which, in addition to bringing between 50 and 80 centimetres of new snow, hit some of the resort's ski lifts hard, generating blocks of ice on pulleys and rockers, and unhooking the cable of chairlifts such as Stadium, Monachil or Virgen de las Nieves.  All in all, the resort faces the spring season with great snow conditions. The Laguna and Borreguiles areas accumulate up to two and a half metres of powder snow, the same quality as in the Veleta area with almost two metres of snow on some pistes. The other three sectors of the resort, Loma Dílar, Río and Cauchiles-Parador accumulated between 75 and 130 centimetres of spring snow.

Intense sporting and musical agenda
As for the rest, the sporting and musical agenda this weekend is one of the most intense of the winter season.
The Sun and Snow festival kicks off this Friday with its fifth edition, the most ambitious electronic music event held at the highest altitude in southern Europe, with four stages distributed from Pradollano to Borreguiles, where - until Sunday - 36 musical sessions will take place.
The sports agenda includes five major events. The most popular will be the Ultra Sierra Nevada with more than 1,500 mountain runners registered in its four distances: Ultra, Trail, Marathon and Half Marathon. The main event, the 100 km Ultra, starts this Friday (22.00h) in Granada; the first runners will arrive at Pradollano, after reaching an altitude of 3,000 metres, at midday on Saturday.
Another of the big events will be the National Veterans Trophy, which will attract the best Spanish skiers in the Masters category to Sierra Nevada. This edition will be dedicated to the late former president of the FADI, Juan Luis Hernández, who was one of the driving forces behind this competition.
On the other hand, one of the best Spanish skiers of all time, Carolina Ruiz, will be at the head of theAudio Quattro Cup-Carolina Ruiz Challenge, considered one of the most important ski competitions for children on the national scene. 
The Andalusian University Alpine Skiing Championship and theTrofeo Ruralito - Copa Andalucía de Esquí Alpino complete the sports agenda for the first weekend of April.

Sierra Nevada expands new snowpark for spring

The new snow situation in Sierra Nevada has allowed since this weekend the extension of the snowpark to four lines of modules and jumps (and a fifth under construction) on both sides of the Loma de Dílar chairlift, with which the freestyle offer experiences a significant growth for the spring season in the winter resort of Granada.
This is the implementation of the new snowpark project designed at the beginning of the season in collaboration with the Andalusian Winter Sports Federation and which has finally been carried out now thanks to the snowfall recorded in Sierra Nevada just over a week ago.
The construction of the snowpark, which will be finished in the first days of this week with new modules, has followed criteria of evolution by levels, from beginners to experts. Its location on the side of the Loma de Dílar chairlift allows for a high frequency of descents on the different lines.

Sierra Nevada goes (almost) to 100

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The ski and mountain resort of Sierra Nevada has reached today, with 97 kilometres (118 slopes), the largest skiable surface since the 2019/20 season thanks to the accumulations of snow registered during the past weekend, with up to 2 metres in areas such as Borreguiles.
The opening of almost all the slopes in the Laguna area and a good part of the runs in the Parador-Cauchiles area has allowed Sierra Nevada to reach the last third of the season in the best moment of the 23/24 winter season.
The resort is also recovering some of the facilities affected by the storm, such as the snowpark, which from this weekend will have around 30 modules on both sides of the Loma de Dílar chairlift, as well as a platform in the big jumps sector, which will be used for the Spanish Slopestyle Championships on the weekend of 23 and 24 March.
Meanwhile, this weekend the resort will host four official sporting competitions: the Reyes Santa Olalla and Nazarí bumps trophies, as well as the White Camp and Club Monachil alpine skiing trophies, both of which count towards the Jesús Serra inclusive trophy.
Sierra Nevada also brings back the music sessions in Borreguiles with the performance of the DJs Julián Movilla and Rober Peinado this Friday 15th March on the Chill Out terrace.
Also, the activities for non-skiers in the Borreguiles area are back and the Mirlo blanco activities are still open in Pradollano with its toboggans, sledges, ice rink and Mirlo sledge.
The weather forecast for the next few days predicts predominantly clear skies, no significant winds and slightly rising temperatures.

FIS praises Sierra Nevada SBX World Cup

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has praised the organisation of the Sierra Nevada Snowboard Cross World Cup double World Cup this weekend, with the best SBX riders on the planet, in which the Granadan winter resort has shown its versatility to adapt to the circumstances arising from a very changeable weather.
                  The FIS Chief Director of Snowboard Cross Racing, Uwe Beier, underlined that "the World Cup in Sierra Nevada has been one of the highlights of our World Cup calendar in recent years". Sierra Nevada has hosted five SBX World Cups in 2020, 2023 and 2024. 
"Once again this year, despite the difficult snow conditions, they managed to fully commit and deliver two great World Cup competitions," said Beier, before continuing the discipline's world circuit this weekend in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
According to the FIS head of snowboard cross, "the level is really good and we would love to keep Sierra Nevada on the World Cup calendar in the coming years". For this reason, he hopes that the FIS will receive "confirmation of the application for the 2024/2025 calendar soon so that we can confirm it at the FIS spring meetings".
For his part, the CEO of Cetursa Sierra Nevada, Jesús Ibáñez, thanked the national and Andalusian federations, volunteers, the army, businessmen and sponsors, "especially Turismo Andaluz and the Consejería de Fomento", for their "work and involvement" in bringing off an event which, despite the difficulties in building the circuit, has been "a complete success".
"The resort and the organisation have adapted to the weather and snow conditions at all times, creating a great sporting spectacle at the highest level, which has not only been compatible with tourist skiing, but has also been an incentive," added Ibáñez, who, as has happened in the last World Cups, hopes for the involvement of public and private sponsorships to continue on the world snowboard cross circuit.
The Sierra Nevada SBX competition, sponsored by the Andalusian Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, was the seventh event in this season's Snowboard Cross World Cup calendar, and after the World Cups on 2 and 3 March in Sierra Nevada, three more events remain to decide which riders will win the discipline's crystal globe.

Michaela Moioli and Merlin Surget win in the second Sierra Nevada SBX World Cup

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2018 South Korea Olympic champion Micaela Moioli of Italy won the second Sierra Nevada SBX World Cup today in an eventful final round in which two of the world's best riders, Chloe Trespeuch (FRA) and Charlotte Bankes (GBR), collided metres before the finish line as they battled for first place. Trespeuch, with a heavy impact to the face, was knocked out of the race, while Bankes, trailing, came in third behind Australia's Josie Baff.
Moioli, surprised by the crash that gave her the win, admitted after stepping off the top of the podium, "I thought I was going to be third, but sometimes you get lucky and I'm happy about that. I'm also happy that Charlotte and Chloe are doing well".
In the men's category, Lucas Eguibar's absence from the final, after crashing in the last corner of qualifying, dampened the atmosphere on the Loma de Dílar SBX circuit, which until this weekend had been favourable to him. "I wanted to be too aggressive, I found a bump in the last corner and I crashed. You always have to be concentrated. But I'm already looking forward to the next races to get rid of the thorn from Sierra Nevada", explained the Spanish rider.
Without Eguibar - neither Toni Toledo nor Bernat Rivera - the Spanish representation in the final rounds was reduced to Álvaro Romero.
The young Spaniard from San Sebastian came out in the first of the final heats (round of 16) but came up just a few centimetres short of reaching the quarter-finals.With Lucas out, the big favourites of the world circuit went through the rounds, among them the leader of the SBX World Cup, the Canadian Elliot Grondin, and the current world champion, the Austrian Jakob Dusek.
However, Merlin Surget, supported by the French fans in the stands of the Loma de Dílar, dominated the final round and, despite the strong pressure to which he was subjected by Grondin, he obtained in Sierra Nevada the second victory of his World Cup record.With Grondin second - consolidating his lead in the overall standings - Jakob Dusek took the third step of the podium.  "It's not easy to win.We were expecting a lot of wind - then it didn't come - and it was a tough day.It's my third time here; now always Sierra Nevada for this victory", said the French rider.
The Sierra Nevada SBX competition, sponsored by the Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, was the seventh event in this season's Snowboard Cross World Cup calendar, and after the World Cups, it was the seventh event in the Sierra Nevada World Cup calendar. 
The Sierra Nevada SBX competition, sponsored by the Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, was the seventh event in this season's Snowboard Cross World Cup calendar, and after the Cups on 2 and 3 March in Sierra Nevada there will be three more rounds left to decide which riders will win the discipline's crystal globe.
Without Eguibar -neither Toni Toledo nor Bernat Rivera-, the Spanish representation in the final rounds was reduced to Álvaro Romero. The young rider from San Sebastian went out in the first of the final heats (round of 16) but was just a few centimetres short of passing the final.

Charlotte Bankes, SBX legend in Sierra Nevada

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British rider Charlotte Bankes has prolonged her love affair with Sierra Nevada by winning the first of two Snowboard Cross World Cups this weekend, adding to her two wins in the Granada resort in 2023. Bankes already won a silver medal at the 2012 World Junior Championships in the mountains of Granada and also climbed to the second step of the podium at the 2017 Sierra Nevada Absolute World Championships.
In a race marked by interruptions due to foggy visibility, Bankes maintained his dominance in all rounds until the final series. "Although the weather conditions were difficult I managed to recover well between heats. Tomorrow the weather will be bad but, like today, we will fight to the end," she said after stepping off the podium.
The women's podium was completed by Czech rider Eva Adamczykova (second), followed by the World Cup leader, French rider Chloe Trespeuch, who remains at the top of the overall World SBX circuit after the first of the two World Cups in Sierra Nevada.
In the men's category, Spanish rider Lucas Eguibar, after having dominated all his heats, just missed out on the podium after finishing fourth in the final round. Eguibar, who had already warned in the qualifiers that the start could penalise him, left the starting gate last and, despite his attempts to make a comeback, reached the finish line in the same position.  
"I was very focused and, although the weather conditions were not good, but I don't even care about the wind. We took the second gate in the final and maybe we made a mistake because those who came out of there didn't do well. Then I tried to be aggressive at the bottom, but in the end I fell," said Eguibar.
The winner of the first World Cup, after examining the photo finish, was 19-year-old German Leon Ulbrich, who thus achieved his first victory on the world SBX circuit. Ulbcrich was followed by World Cup leader Elliot Grondin from Canada, while American Jake Vedder was third.
The second round of the Sierra Nevada SBX World Cup will be held this Sunday.
The Sierra Nevada SBX competition, sponsored by the Andalusian Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, will be the seventh event in this season's Snowboard Cross World Cup calendar, and after the cups on 2 and 3 March in Sierra Nevada there will be three more events to decide the riders who will win the discipline's crystal globe.

All favourites qualify for first Sierra Nevada World SBX Cup

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In the men's category, the best time was set by the current leader of the discipline's World Cup, Canadian Elliot Grondin, followed by Spaniard Lucas Eguibar, 19 hundredths of a second behind, and the Czech Jan Kubicic, third fastest in the qualifying round.
Álvaro Romero from Guipuzcoa was thirteenth, eighty hundredths of a second behind Grondin. The other two Spaniards taking part, the Catalans Bernat Ribera and Antoni Toledo, did not make the cut of the best 32.
Eguibar said: "I felt very good, the snow is as hard as I like it, despite the fact that the track is shorter than last year, I am very clear about the important points; it is true that I lose a little bit at the start, but I am not worried because I know that people are doing well, I am calm because I know what I have to do and tomorrow I will be at my best".
In the women's race, the best time was set by Italy's Michela Moioli, a three-time Crystal Globe winner and Olympic gold medallist at the PyeongChang'18 Olympic Games (South Korea), who was the fastest, half a second ahead of Czech Eva Adamczykova. France's Chloe Trespeuch, the World Cup leader, finished third in qualifying, 85 hundredths of a second behind Moioli.
The first Sierra Nevada World Cup, with 32 men and 16 women, will be contested tomorrow from 13.00 hours.
The Sierra Nevada SBX competition, sponsored by the Andalusian Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, will be the seventh event in this season's Snowboard Cross World Cup calendar, and after the Cups on 2 and 3 March in Sierra Nevada there will be three more races left to decide which riders will win the discipline's crystal globe.

Bordercross legends meet in Sierra Nevada

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107 riders from 19 countries
World SBX legends are among the 107 athletes registered for the double World Cup in Sierra Nevada on 2 and 3 March, a similar number to last season. Sixty percent are men and 40% women. The country with the most riders in the starting gate of the Sierra Nevada SBX is France with 19 riders, followed by Italy (17) and the United States (15). Most of the teams with riders with podium chances are between 8 (Austria) and 7 (Australia, Canada, Germany and Switzerland); Spain and the Czech Republic have four riders, while Japan has 3 and South Korea 2. The rest of the participating countries come to Sierra Nevada with one representative: Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Norway.
FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup 2024 - Program
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Thursday, 29.02.2024
09.30-09.45 Inspection Men
10.00-11.30 Training Men     
11.30-11.45 Inspection Women
11.45-12.00 Course Preparation
12.00-13.30 Training Women
14.00-14.05 Forerunners Women
Friday, 1.03.2024
09.30-09.45 Inspection Men
10.00-10.45 Training Men
11.00-11.05 Forerunners Men
11.05-12.30 Qualification Men
12.30-12.45 Inspection Women
13.00-13.45 Training Women
14.00-14.05 Forerunners Women
14.05-15.00 Qualification Women
 Saturday, 2.03.2024
11:00 -11:30 Inspection
10:45-12:30 Training finalists
13.00-14.20 FINALS SBX
 Sunday, 2.03.2024
08:30 – 08: 45 Inspection W - M
09- 09:40 Training W - M
10:00 - 11:00 Qualifications heats
11.30-12.50 FINALS SBX

The best snowboard cross riders of the last decade, some with a brilliant sporting record that includes Olympic titles, world championships or crystal globes, will compete this weekend in Sierra Nevada in the double SBX World Cup, one of the most spectacular disciplines in winter sports.
Many of them first entered the world of international competition in 2012 at the Sierra Nevada Junior Snowboard Cross World Championships, and since then they have not missed the international events in the Granada resort: the 2013 World Cup final (they missed the slopes due to bad weather), the 2017 Absolute World Championships, and the 2020 and 2023 World Cups.
The Spaniard Lucas Eguibar, Alexandro Haemmerle (AUT), Charlotte Bankes (GBR), Micaela Moioli (ITA) or Lindsey Jacobellis, all of them registered for the double World Cup on 2 and 3 March, are part of this group of legendary riders, regulars in Sierra Nevada, with an enviable track record.
The best Spanish winter sportsman, Lucas Eguibar, returns to his talismanic resort. In Sierra Nevada, Lucas is an idol. To his two silver medals in the 2017 World Cup (individual and team with Regino Hernández), Lucas Eguibar added the gold medal in the 2020 World Cup in one of the most memorable performances in the history of Sierra Nevada. In the 2023 World Cup he won one of the races and came second in the other. 
Like Eguibar, Austrian Alexandro Haemmerle made his debut on the international SBX scene at the Sierra Nevada Junior World Cup. He won in 2012 and since then he started to build the most successful career in modern SBX. At the 2017 senior world championships he was unlucky and missed out on the individual final, finishing fourth in the team final. The reigning Olympic champion of the discipline was second in the Sierra Nevada 2020 World Cup behind his good friend Lucas Eguibar. In 2023 he did not appear due to injury.
The greatest SBX snowboarder of all time, 38-year-old American Lindsey Jacobellis, returns to Sierra Nevada this weekend.  Two Olympic and five World Cup golds crown Jacobellis, who has more than 30 World Cup victories to her name. In Sierra Nevada she was world champion in 2017 and second in the 2020 World Cup behind Moioli. In 2023 she won bronze on the podium at the Loma de Dílar.
Another rider who emerged from the SN2012 junior world championships as runner-up is Brit Charlotte Bankes. At the 2017 senior world championships, the 28-year-old British rider also won silver in the team event. Although in 2020 she missed out on the podium (4th) in Sierra Nevada, in the 2023 World Cup she swept the board by winning both finals. This weekend she will be in the starting gate.
Micaela Moioli, ausente por lesión en 2023, regresa a la estación donde se proclamó campeona del mundo en 2017 (fue tercera en júnior 2012). Una de las grandes de esta disciplina, campeona olímpica en Corea del Sur 2018, fue segunda en la Copa del Mundo de Sierra Nevada 2020.
One of Moioli's great rivals in the last decade is the current World Cup leader, Frenchwoman Chloe Trespeuch, who, like Lucas Eguibar, has Sierra Nevada as one of her talismanic resorts.  At the 2017 World Cups she was proclaimed team world champion and individual runner-up. She won the World Cup in the Granada resort in 2020 and was second in the two World Cups in 2023.
The competition in Sierra Nevada, sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport of the Andalusian Regional Government with co-financing from the European Union, and organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish winter sports federations, will be the seventh event in this season's SBX World Cup calendar, and after the cups on 2 and 3 March in the mountains of Granada, there will be three more races left to decide which riders will win the discipline's crystal globe.

Sierra Nevada passes snow control; there will be SBX World Cup on March 2 and 3

The Snowboard Cross World Cup circuit has today passed the snow control carried out by the International Ski Federation (FIS) technicians, which means that, barring weather mishaps, Sierra Nevada will host two SBX World Cups on the weekend of 2 and 3 March.
The FIS technical advisor for the snowboard cross discipline, Alberto Schiavon, today inspected the circuit, measured thicknesses and tested the quality of the snow, after which he considered the track to be suitable for the Sierra Nevada double World Cup.
The circuit, due to the snow conditions at the time of construction, will lower the starting elevation and raise the finishing elevation, for a total length of 671 metres, 100 metres of vertical drop and a maximum gradient of 26 percent.
            According to Schiavon, "the organisation has done a great job to define a good circuit; surely the weather is going to help us in the next few days with snow and cold, but we have a good base to do the World Cup. We got the green light, so congratulations.
            It's a bit early to know what kind of riders this circuit will favour," added Alberto Schiavon, "we have to see how it will be definitively because there is still work to be done. It seems clear that the riders who go well will have a good advantage, but everything will depend on what happens in the next few days, if it's cold, if it's hot; the quality of the track will also be decisive".