Mens Alpine World Cup 2008

With the Mens World Cup competition starting tomorrow, tonight saw a presentation evening take place on the snow front. It was a lively event with gold medalists from the 1992 olympics (I think, it was mainly in French so I got a little confussed in places), up on stage giving talks, along with lots of other skiers from various countries.
Lots of plugging was done for the 2009 World Cup which will also be held here.
The new soup which has been made especially for the 2009 World
Cup was given it's debute and was classed as 'Excellent' by folk up on stage. All spectators were given samples, I brought mine back to the office for Richard to try, he claims it's 'Not bad', though he couldnt exactly specify what kind of soup it was or if it was vegetarian or not. The recipe is supposed to be posted on the internet but as of yet I have failed to locate it, I shall continue the search.
Aswell as the soup being unveiled, the new poster, again for the 2009 World Cup was shown for the 1st time. There was a big countdown (well, from 5 down), then voila, there it was amongst flashing lights and fireworks. No doubt it will now be posted everywhere, it's quite a colourful number, shall try and post a copy of it in the next day or two, unless of course you have super eyesight and can see the posters the two guys are holding up in the bottom picture! We all got given a copy of the poster along with our soup.
I was under the impression that the bibs were going to be given out to the competitors of this weekends races tonight, but unless I was looking in the wrong place, I unfortunately missed this bit.
After all the events and fireworks a 'Rolling Stones' tribute band played, by which time though my feet had frozen so I returned to the office where the odd warble reached us, by accounts from various guests though, they were very good!