Mijares and Cornella head to Levi to open the World Cup slalom season

Carla Mijares and Xavier Cornella, of the FAE’s national A slalom team, have set off for Levi, Finland, for the first World Cup slaloms of the season. Mijares races on Saturday 14 November and Cornella, making his World Cup debut, on Sunday 15. Both have been training in Sölden and Gurgl, Austria, where they also skied the race hill for the next World Cup, on 21 and 22 November respectively. Mijares is travelling with coach Pol Carreras after three intensive days on hard snow in Sölden and three more in Gurgl. Cornella left on Wednesday with team coach Fred Beauviel and assistant coach and ski technician Àlex Rius; they arrive in Levi on Thursday and plan to train there for at least a day before the race.