Olympia delle Tofane
Olympia delle Tofane: one of the best known and most iconic slopes of Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The slope hosted ski competitions during the 1956 Winter Olympics, hosts the Women’s Ski World Cup races every year, and in 2021 was the Downhill, Super G and Giant Slalom slope during the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships Cortina 2021. In 1990 it also saw Kristian Ghedina first World Cup victory, who triumphed right on his home track.
In its 2,560 meters in length, it features some famous and treacherous passages: the “Schuss,” with a maximum gradient of 65 percent, where the “Queens of Speed” jump and reach a maximum speed of 140 kilometers per hour; the “Duca d’Aosta Jump” and the “Delta” blind passage; the complicated “Gran Curvone” and the subsequent “Scarpadon” change of gradient. In the final stretch where the gradient decreases, the athletes have to keep the speed high to face the final traverse and the final jump.
90 seconds of pure adrenaline, representing the great Classic of the world’s Pink Circus.
