I think I’m going to see the Tour de Ski this year. One must see while you can, it is not certain it is as many years again with the great international event in cross country skiing.
the One that talks about such concerns are Martin Johnsrud sundby’s time. When he discusses the participation in the Tour de Ski, the low the interest outside the Nordic countries and Russia he is concerned. He therefore thinks the best set of the Tour simply to help to increase interest, or at least stem the tide of waning interest.
the Theme is the screaming current. In verdenscupløpene in Davos last weekend could be the broadcasts to convey something that was going to be the audience’s cheers and cowbells. It was something that skurret, there were no pictures of this “jubilant” audience.
What we actually saw of the images were trails through the empty forests and the bright ranks of langrennsfolk along reklameskiltene in the arena. There was no cheering masses. Either there was a invisible mob and hoiet by some microphones, or so, we heard the sound effects added on the pictures to disguise the silence. It was in any case not many who had met up to see the second best meeting the other second-best in a sport they do not have any relationship to.
Dagbladet says cmo in the FIS that they are concerned about, (of course …) first and foremost because of the failure of the sponsor money: “Viessmann resigned as langrennssponsor after 16 years and that cross country skiing is less shown on TV in large markets such as Germany and Poland.”
And to further remind ourselves of how marginal langrennsinteressen already outside the Nordic region, it may be interesting to see on YouTube their clips from this sport’s major events. Superhero Northug is in a class of its own in cross country skiing, but even his bravader have only one clip that passes 1 million views.
In cross-country skiing are this large, but compared with everything else, it is small: For example, there are many clips from the snooker with 5-10 million impressions, and other small sports such as synchronized swimming, water polo, bobsleigh and luge danker also out cross country skiing with very good margin. Thus, it is here cross-country skiing, its distribution and popularity in the day: Laangt behind synchronized swimming.
And in the midst of this situation, on the way from bad to worse, coach Ole Morten Iversen managed to convince Therese Johaug about not to ask on the Tour. He says to the newspaper Dagbladet with pride about this contribution to make the sport even less interesting on the continent: “I miss more who dare to do the same. We were finally very agree about the election, both the national leadership’s, Pål Gunnar and Therese even. The Tour de Ski, she can go next year, but the world cup in Seefeld is only now.”
We can clear us a few years to add a soundtrack of cheers at the box on top of the pictures of the international cross-country skiing and pretend to look at an international sport with some width. But isn’t this a little sad?
As a small start in a different direction, I would ask “ national leadership’s, Pål Gunnar and Therese even” take a meeting with Martin Johnsrud sundby’s time and listen well to what he says.
“mountain code” provides us with Solskjær on the TV2 2. christmas day
