Norwegian “four hills tournament” will be different than the German-Austrian – Onet.pl

 
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  Peter Prevc on the hill in the Oslo-Holmenkollen
 
 
 

Norwegian competition is scheduled to start in Oslo at Holmenkollen, where 11 and 12 March will be held two competitions – individual and team. The next will be hosted on March 14 Lillehammer, and March 16 Granasen hill in Trondheim. Norwegian tournament will end on a mammoth facility in Vikersund 18 and 19 March, where he twice held the individual competition.

“already, the project has a team consisting of 50 people. at the turn of April and May we will meet with the director of the ski jumping FIS Walter Hofer in order to arrange the last details,” – said Clas Brede Bråthen, the team manager of Norway and chairman of the Norwegian project of the tournament.

The Norwegian, who April 10 during a meeting in Zurich the FIS led the presentation of the project, stressed that “our project met with such great interest and support, they immediately accepted the date on the calendar for next season.”

“the final decision will be taken as true during the FIS congress in Mexico in June, but can confidently say that we will have a great tournament in Norway” – announced aired on television NRK.

Norwegians are planning new products, eg. giving up points for style in Vikersund, where one of the competitions consist of qualifications, quarter- and semi-finals and the grand finale. The inaugural event in Oslo have called a prologue, in which the athletes will receive bonus points.

“With all certainly we will not have a system pojedynkowego as TCS. Our tournament will be radically different, but above all very clear for the global audience, “- he stressed Brathen.

He also explained the interest of sponsors has exceeded all expectations.

” In this way, having firmly secured the financial side we focus now on the name of our tournament, and will be selected primarily on the basis of proposals fans “- he said.

So far there are three proposals, two of which bear the names of the legends in the Norwegian ski jumping – three-time winner of TCS (1966/1967, 1967/1968 and 1968/1969) and double world champion (1966 ) Bjoern Wirkola and two-time Olympic champion (1932 and 1936) and five times the world (1931, 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937) Birger Ruud.

According Brathen currently the most up to date are “Wirkola week” and “Birger Ruud tournament”. The third already electrifying already proposed name is VOLT, which is the abbreviation of host cities in order Vikersund, Oslo, Lillehammer and Trondheim.