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World freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships partially relocated

The world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships, which will no longer be held in China, will now be partially in Sweden in February.

Events in ski cross and snowboard cross will be in Idre Fjäll, Sweden, from Feb. 11-13.

Reports on Jan. 7 indicated Calgary pursued to host other world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships events — moguls, aerials, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air — but the International Ski Federation (FIS) has yet to reschedule those competitions.

On Dec. 4, FIS announced that the world championships would no longer be held in Zhangjiakou, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic venue, due to the coronavirus pandemic.