The Extreme Park in Kasnaya Polyana/Rosa Khutor, the site of the Olympic Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard competitions is now in its final preparation phaseof the six courses, with only a few fine-tuning adjustments remaining.

While the previous inspection in May 2013 focused on an extensive review of the test competitions, this time the first off-snow inspection of the finish area design took place in order to ensure all logistical expectations, between the sport, media and teams can be met during Games’ time.

"As we are running five back-to-back Snowboard events for ladies and men, another use of every meter of space is predetermined“, highlighted FIS Snowboard Race Director Uwe Beier.

On the Freestyle Skiing side, which also features five events and 10 competitions, things are looking positive as well: “Our focus was clearly on the set-up of the finish area with the rights holders, mixed zones and coaches’ zones getting defined. After five years of planning and work, it is good to see the end in sight, but the last ten percent of work usually takes the most effort. We can now imagine that the setting is going to be very special for all of our competitions”, underlined FIS Freestyle Skiing Coordinator Joseph Fitzgerald.

Aside from the finish area, comments and remarks from the test competitions, schedules, as well as roles and duties of National Technical Officials were reviewed in detail.

Additionally, the first traces of the Olympic spirit have been seen by the FIS representatives: “Besides the sport-related issues, it is good to see the construction dust slowly disappearing and the resort coming alive. We already saw many tourists who came up from the city enjoying their time in the mountains and in Rosa Khutor", concluded Uwe Beier.

Source: the official FIS site