The 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships were opened in the<br />Sports Centre of Alp, a small village near La Molina, Spain on Tuesday<br />(19 February). From 20-27 February, 118 skiers from 29 countries will<br />battle it out for gold in six events, just over a year before the next<br />Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Live results, daily news<br />stories and video highlights, as well as athlete video blogs will be<br />uploaded to www.ipcalpineskiingworlds.org and fans can follow the<br />action on Twitter @IPCAlpine and on the IPC Alpine Skiing Facebook page<br />Facebook.com/IPCAlpineSkiing. "Since the 2011 World Championships in<br />Sestriere a number of great rivalries have developed on the alpine<br />skiing circuit and I expect these to take centre stage here this week,"<br />said IPC President, Sir Philip Craven in his Opening Ceremony<br />speech. "I'm also delighted at some of the new young talent emerging<br />and believe some of them will be surprise packages here in La Molina by<br />coming out of nowhere to win a medal or even a world title. "Such<br />competition for medals and rankings is great news for the sport and I<br />expect the performance levels of athletes to reach new heights at these<br />Championships." The Opening Ceremony of the sixth World Championships<br />was attended by Her Royal Highness, Princess Elena, Mayor Ramon<br />Moliner, Miguel Cardenal, President of the Spanish Sports Council, Ivan<br />Tibau, Secretary General of Sport, Miguel Carballeda, President of the<br />Spanish Paralympic Committee and Miguel Sagarra, IPC Governing Board<br />Member. It featured a performance from the local band For more<br />information please visit the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships<br />La Molina homepage: http://ipcalpineskiingworlds.org The International<br />Paralympic Committee (IPC) is committed to enabling Paralympic athletes<br />to achieve sporting excellence and to develop sport opportunities for<br />all persons with a disability from the beginner to elite level. In<br />addition, the IPC aims to promote the Paralympic values, which include<br />courage, determination, inspiration and equality. For further<br />information, please visit http://www.paralympic.org. To watch videos on<br />demand from Paralympic Games and to subscribe to ParalympicSport.TV,<br />please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV. Also, you may follow<br />the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at<br />http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at<br />http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
