63° Winter Meeting Scij Sestriere: programme (final)
63° Winter Meeting Ski Club International des Journalistes
Trofeo Mondiale dei Giornalisti
SESTRIERE 13 - 20 MARZO 2016
Sport e incontri. L’Informazione senza frontiere. Memoria Olimpica
Sunday March 13
Transfer from airports Milano Malpensa and Orio Al Serio to Palazzo Madama, Torino. From Torino Caselle private bus to Palazzo Madama at h. 12 -15 - 19. For arrivals by car we suggest this parking: Piazza Vittorio Veneto or Piazza San Carlo (200 mt from Palazzo Madama).
14.00 (From) - Meeting and accreditation in Palazzo Madama (www.palazzomadamatorino.it), piazza Castello. Tourism information desk in cooperation with Turismo Torino (www.turismotorino.org). Every member will receive a museums pass. There is the possibility of a free tour of the city.
18.00 - Palazzo Madama - Official welcome and dinner with Mayor of Torino Piero Fassino
20.00 (From) - Bus to Sestriere
21.00 - Last bus to Sestriere
22.00 - Arrive in Hotel Villaggio Olimpico and accommodation (www.villaggiolimpico.com)
22.30 (From) - Rent ski in hotel
23.00 - Sala Bucaneve, Captains' meeting
Monday March 14
09.30 - Pista Olimpica Agnelli, OPENING CEREMONY. National teams will parade on the slope with skis. Official welcome with Valter Marin, Mayor of Sestriere, and Unione Comuni Olimpici Via Lattea
11.00 - Ski tour on the Via Lattea with ski instructors
13.30 - Light lunch in different places (instructions to captains about places will follow)
15.00 - Free ski with new members
17.00 - Hotel Villaggio Olimpico, Sala Ginepro, Think Thank: Rules and Future of Scij
20.00 - Sestriere, Discoteca Tabata, Nations' Night. From Disco-night with Gigio DJ
Tuesday March 15
08.00 - Sala Bucaneve, Captains' meeting
09.30 - Free ski. Possibility of ski tour in Via Lattea and Monginevro (France). Departure from Hotel with skis (www.vialattea.it)
14.00 - Training Giant Slalom, Pista Olimpica Agnelli
17.00 - Hotel Villaggio Olimpico, Sala Ginepro, Think Thank: Future of Scij
19.30 - Buffet dinner in hotel
Wednesday March 16
Sestriere, Pista Olimpica G. A. Agnelli, GIANT SLALOM
09.00 - Warm up
09.45 - Start of the race
12.00 - Award ceremony
13.00 - Light lunch with ”polenta and typical Piemonte food” at Rifugio Aquila Nera (on the slopes)
17.00 - Sestriere, Sala Atl Turismo, Conference: “Olympic Memory. Torino 2006 opportunity and development” (details will follow)
19.30 - Buffet dinner in hotel
21.30 - Villaggio Olimpico White Party and excusive for SCIJ members Disco and Karaoke at Discoteca Tiratardi
Thursday March 17
08.00 - Captains' meeting, Sala Bucaneve
09.30 - Free ski. For a small group of people possibility of experience of ski mountaineering and free ride with Ferrino and Carlo Alberto Cimenti, first Italian Snowleopard Ambassador, decoration awarded only to mountaineers who climb the five peaks above 7.000 meters in the nations of the ex Soviet Union www.ferrino.it/experience/ambassador (details will follow)
10.00 - Pista Olimpica Sestriere. Demo-exhibition Team Italia Interski and Demo Paralympic Ski. By Collegio Nazionale Maestri di Sci, Associazione Maestri Sci Italiani e FISI
14.00 - Free training cross-country with Elisa Grill, national cross-country instructor (transfer by public bus to Pragelato)
17.00 - SCIJ GENERAL ASSEMBLY
20.00 - French delegation presents “Val Cenis 2017”
20.30 - Dinner at Gargotte with in cooperation with Regione Marche. Guest: Flavio Roda, President of FISI (Italian Federation of Ski)
Friday March 18
Pragelato, Olympic Park, CROSS COUNTRY
08.00 - Bus to Pragelato
08.30 - Ski rental
9.30 - Start of the race (Mass start)
11.30 - Award ceremony and buffet with local food
12.30 - Coffe time at Club Med Pragelato
13.15 - Bus to Sestriere
15.30 - Pista Olimpica G. A. Agnelli, GIANT SLALOM, Warm up
16.00 - Start of the race
19.40 - Fireworks
19.30 - Sestriere, Sala Atl Turismo, Dinner
22.30 - Disco at Tabata (free entrance with badge)08.30 - Bus to Pragelato
Saturday March 19
09.00 - Sala Bucaneve, Captains' meeting
09.30 - Free ski
13.00 - Hotel Villaggio Olimpico Garden, Lunch
17.00 - Sestriere, Sala Atl Turismo, SCIJ Roundtable: “Refugee crisis in Africa, Europe and the Middle East”
20.30 - Hotel Villaggio Olimpico, Gala dinner in Hotel with “TU, Langhe e Roero”, World Heritage Site and the cultural landscape of these vineyards, declared the 50th Italian location to be protected by UNESCO (www.langheroero.it). Cooking show. Award Ceremony Combined
Disco at discoteca Tiratardi
Sunday March 20
Departure - Post Tour