Beaver Creek is los­ing its annu­al men’s World Cup races this year and Mikaela Shiffrin won’t get to race in New Eng­land, a region dear to her heart, due to can­cel­la­tion of North Amer­i­can World Cup races by the FIS in response to the coro­n­avirus pandemic.

Beaver Creek was sched­uled to host down­hill, super‑G and giant slalom the first week in Decem­ber and has been a reg­u­lar stop on the tour for more than two decades. The women were set to race giant slalom and slalom the week­end after Thanks­giv­ing at Killing­ton, Vt. The FIS said both events will return in 2021.

Shiffrin has spent most of her life in the Vail Val­ley but also has New Eng­land roots. She went to high school at Vermont’s Burke Moun­tain Academy.

“I think by now every­one prob­a­bly knows that Killing­ton is my favorite race,” Shiffrin tweet­ed Thurs­day morn­ing after get­ting the news. “It’s such a plea­sure to be able to race in the U.S., and race in the East Coast with those East Coast fans scream­ing. It’s also such a joy to see so many young ski rac­ers in our nation there to cheer us all on. It’s been amaz­ing, and I am going to real­ly miss it this year.”

Mike Imhof, pres­i­dent of the Vail Val­ley Foun­da­tion which orga­nizes the event, said the orga­ni­za­tion is “sad­dened” by the loss of the races that bring thou­sands of spec­ta­tors to Beaver Creek but under­stood the decision.

“It is clear this deci­sion is in the best inter­ests of the health and safe­ty of the World Cup ath­letes, coach­es, tech­ni­cians, vol­un­teers, media, staff, all of the World Cup fans and the World Cup tour itself,” Imhof said.

In addi­tion to Beaver Creek and Killing­ton, Cana­di­an men’s and women’s speed races at Lake Louise, Alber­ta, will be lost. Shiffrin has been rac­ing there in recent years as well.

“The objec­tive of FIS is to car­ry out a full World Cup com­pe­ti­tion pro­gram, pro­tect­ing the health and wel­fare of all par­tic­i­pants to the best extent pos­si­ble,” the ski fed­er­a­tion said in a news release. “The tem­po­rary re-align­ment of the FIS Alpine World Cup Cal­en­dar caters to this goal by focus­ing on ath­lete safe­ty, reduc­ing trav­el, and pro­vid­ing com­peti­tors with a detailed com­pe­ti­tion calendar.”

The plan is for can­celed races to be resched­uled in Europe at sites that already are set to hold races.

“The North Amer­i­can races are always a very spe­cial two weeks for the entire FIS World Cup tour,” said FIS Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Sarah Lewis, “and we are very dis­ap­point­ed that we could not find a way to have them on this year’s Alpine calendar.”