Norwegians are expected to have a medal rain in the World Championships.
The Nordic ski season will have its culmination in the next one and a half weeks in a ski crazy Norway, with Trondheim’s third largest city hosting the World Championships.
Athletes are waiting for the Granåsen tracks and the rich in the rich in the mountains, as ticket sales for the race have been lively. Race leader Åge Skinstad According to Monday, about 192,000 of the 220,000 tickets for the World Championships.
-Our wish has been to sell 200,000 tickets before the start of the World Championships. Our dream goal is to sell 220,000 tickets, but it is likely to depend on the weather, Skinstad told Norwegian news agency NTB.
The host of Norway can be used for cross-country skiing, ski jumping and a combined World Championship with a stunning medal rain. Skinstad hopes that the start of the race will attract even more viewers to Trondheim.
– 200,000 is a lot of people. It would fill the Lerendal eight times, Skinstad referred to Trondheim’s football pride to Rosenborg’s home stadium.
According to Skinstad, most of the ski competitions and ski jumping competitions are already sold out, but for example, there are still some tickets for the upcoming weekend. Men ski the combination competition on Saturday and women on Sunday.
There are nearly 2,500 volunteers in the Trondheim World Championships. The races will begin on Wednesday with skiing qualifiers, but on Thursday the medals are already solved in sprint skiing and in the combined women’s joint start.
The World Championships will end on March 9.