Världscupshelgen in Ulricehamn 2017 was not only a success, it also became the major snackisen.
Up to 60,000 visitors went to the Lassalyckan and got in the bright sunshine and few degrees below zero to see Marit Björgen and Alex Harvey win Saturday’s distance.
King Carl XVI Gustaf was invited and had declined. But the big publikfesten got the king to change his mind.
– In the afternoon, he called and asked if he could come.
During Sunday, Carl XVI Gustaf in the stands and along with thousands of ski enthusiasts hailed he the athletes who took the in the goals.
this time, The court officially declined, ” notes Falk. The king is very interested but this time he will not.
ensures the Falcon is that it becomes publikfest in the weekend also.
” We do not have the same rush as of two years ago, but we had already on Wednesday sold around 40,000 tickets.
the Races tv-broadcast, but Falk believes that you should experience the races at the place.
– Vinterstudion in all its glory, but there is a difference to see the skiing live, to hear the announcer Kjell-Erik Kristiansson, who speaks five languages and able to follow the athletes at very close quarters.
It is only Johan Falk and a secretary who are employed but in order to get everything to spin is more than 800 volunteers and officials in time for a shorter or longer period of time.
– It is always easier to do a thing the second time than the first, says Falk.
“ Hosting world-class” is the tough adage. And to arrange a världscupstävling it is required snow.
” We have a snöanläggning that is state of the art but it must have the cold, when it gets cold, produced a lot of snow in a short time. The snow and the track is secured, it can get heavy snowfall which may affect both the races and the traffic, we must be prepared for different scenarios.
Johan Falk points out that there is a greater experience to stand on the tracks than to see the world cup in cross-country skiing in Vinterstudion on the tv. Photo: Mathias Bergeld/Bildbyrån
A pile of snow at about 10,000 cubic meters, has during the summer been under an insulating blanket of sawdust. The snow reserve is no longer needed.
” It has been confidently with the snöhögen, but it’s nice that we now can conclude that the stored snow is not needed to the track.
Falk hope at five degrees below zero and the sun.
this was the Saturday two years ago, but Sunday was a little dimmigare and disigare.
for this year’s competitions is to make it easier for the audience to move in the competition area. Therefore, it has landscaped three subways which makes that the audience can pass.
“It was very crowded two years ago,” admits Falk.
another goal has been to make the femkilometersslingan tougher.
– We have a new hill called the Wall. You should retain a världscupsstatus must have approved courses and now has the municipality helped us to lift the track.
the name which he coined when he got to see the stadium and imagined what kind of pressure it would be inside the stadium itself.
Ryckåsen is the long hill which it competed in 2017. The name found orienteraren Sven Andersson and his friends from my diving in when the in the 1950s practiced jerks in the sucking the hill.
”the Intervals in the slope was such training as you not wanted to do. It was so challenging that everyone was feeling a little bad of it. But gosh what it gave. We were super-tough, all of them,” said Sven Andersson for a couple of years ago in an interview in Ulricehamns Tidning.
Hanna Falk during the world cup competition in Ulricehamn 2017. Photo: Jonas Lindkvist
Hanna Falk, Johan’s daughter, did his hitch in the in the relay, 2017 stands as ”hannah’s hill” on the spårkartan.
When Ulricehamn got världscupstävlingarna 2017, it was in competition with vinterorter as Luleå, Piteå and Umeå.
Before 2017 was Ulricehamn with the International ski association’s list as the organizer of a world cup in 2019, but with the requirement that it must do some improvements.
– Now, we are in the long term plan for the 2021 and 2023. Every two years can be good for the it’s a small place, and both associations and businesses need to catch your breath, ” says Falk.
30.000 lifted Hanna Falk to a career best race
