TODAY THE OPENING CEREMONY OF MARCIALONGA

Today, Marcialonga of Fiemme and Fassa (Trentino region, Italy) opened its 45^th edition with the young skiers on the track. Marcialonga Baby was the first race of this weekend of cross-country skiing that will culminate with the historic ski-marathon on Sunday from 7.50 am (elite ladies) and from 8 am (elite men). Tomorrow at 9.30 am there will be the Marcialonga Story, a fascinating revival with vintage skis and clothing, and the Marcialonga Stars (1:00 pm) for charity in favour of LILT (Italian cancer league), Minimarcialonga (2:00 pm) and Marcialonga Young (2:30 pm): all events dedicated to young people. A big open ceremony entitled “SciVolando” will be held tonight in Molina di Fiemme with Maurilio De Zolt as guest, four times winner at Marcialonga. On Sunday a lot of champions of other sports will be at the start, like the world gold medallist of biathlon Maxim Tsvetkov, who will participate together with other big athletes (Paolo Bettini, John Arne Riise, Bjørn Dæhlie just to name a few): "Marcialonga means fun; it isn’t just a toil", stated the President Angelo Corradini.