U.S. Grand Prix at Breckenridge

U.S. GRAND PRIX
As the resort hosts an unprecedented second Olympic qualifying event. The FIS Freestyle World Cup, in conjunction with the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix, is bringing World Cup halfpipe and slopestyle action to Breck Jan. 8-12, 2014.Watch as the best athletes from around the globe take on Freeway Terrain Park's superpipe and slopestyle course in an attempt to be named to an Olympic team.  The fourth halfpipe and third slopestyle stop on the 2013-14 FIS Freestyle World Cup tour will be one of the last events held within the qualifying period for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The tour stop for the USSA’s Grand Prix was moved from Northstar California Resort to Breck because of the competition-ready venue already in place. Despite quality snow conditions at Northstar, the region was not getting sufficiently cold temperatures for snowmaking to ensure the huge production of snow required for building a competition halfpipe and slopestyle venue. Breckenridge, meanwhile, recently hosted the Dew Tour Mountain Championships, and the mountain's venue was such that it could handle the addition of an event of this size at short notice.   The event will feature most of the top international slopestyle and halfpipe athletes and will be broadcast on NBC and NBCSN.

QUICK FACTS

- The FIS Freestyle World Cup/Sprint U.S. Grand Prix will move to Breckenridge Jan. 8-12, due to weather issues at the previously scheduled venue Northstar.

- It will be the fourth stop of the year on the FIS Freestyle halfpipe World Cup tour, and third for slopestyle

- Quality facilities are already in place at Breck, which just hosted the Dew Tour Mountain Championships.

- The Breckenridge stop is an International Ski Federation World Cup-sanctioned event, being held in conjunction with the USSA's Sprint US Grand Prix for freeskiing, as well as an Association of Freeskiing Professionals Platinum event

- The Breck event will be the second stop in the U.S. Grand Prix series