The organizers did not drive trails in Trondheim. According to Ville Nousiainen, an expert in Sports, many think that Norway would deliberately made the decision.
The World Ski Championships will be held in Trondheim from 26 February to 9 March 2025. The program for the Games can be found here.
The World Skiing World Championships will begin on Wednesday with the traditional skiing and Sprint on Thursday, but there is chaos on Trondheim racing tracks. The tracks are so icy that many national teams have decided to move or cancel their day’s exercise.
– That is life -threatening, the Swedish star Edvin Anger said to Expressen.
The tracks are icy because the Norwegians did not want to drive the tracks again on Tuesday morning. For the Finnish Lubrication Manager Heikki to Tonter The solution came as a surprise.
– Yes, it is a surprise that they are not actively driven. It’s a place for the annoyance, Tonteri tells Sports.
According to Tonter, the icy tracks should only be driven once on a charging machine to be in top condition.
“For some reason, they are not driven now,” Tonteri says.
All national teams are amazed except maybe one?
– In a way, a surprising thing that one is not amazed, Tonteri laughs.
What does this tell you and the service team that the game is already during the race?
– It doesn’t feel terribly nice. However, we have been here for five days and the test conditions have been challenging. Only two days we have been able to test properly. The Baanas have been so frozen that there was no real point in testing.
Because tracks are not driven, other countries’ maintenance teams do not get much information about the actual race tracks. However, Tonteri is confident that Finland will receive winning equipment for Trondheim tracks.
– There’s nothing to do with this. We have to adjust to it and do things well enough we can and are able to. You can’t lose a night’s sleep on this issue, Tonteri says.
“Even the Sabotase of Norwegian”
Sports Expert Ville Nousiainen According to the race, the race was so frozen that with running shoes, one even spilled down.
– This may even have been a small Sabotage, game, maintenance competition for Norwegians, says Nousiainen to Sports.
According to Nousiainen, favoring the race host is not new in itself. He says that in Sweden, too, the Falun World Cup and the Lahti World Cup in Finland have once been taken home.
– The country must take the competitive advantage that is available. It’s not forbidden, Nousiainen sums up.
According to Nousiainen, the organizers have defended the issue in previous days, among other things, that there is no snow at the competition site.
– When you look around, there is quite a lot of snow here, it’s not about it. Yes they want to get a competitive advantage. They have driven it at a certain amount of time at night to get a trail mirror so no one can test in the morning.
When the test lessons in other countries remain small, Norway benefits. According to Nousiainen, on the day of the race, the tracks are different and only the Norwegians know what kind of.
– There may be a lane where they do tests with their own group on a race -like track. The Norwegians were not terribly visible here. Little by little, a few Norwegians have come to this, maybe they too are because of the sight that it is not so rusty, Nousiainen says.
The Norwegians began to appear in the afternoon as the track began to soften and was able to ski.
– Many had a bet that this was a little competitive advantage. It is allowed and belongs to the spirit of the game. You have to be ready for it.
The solution means a lot of hurry for the Finnish service team when the sprints start on Thursday.
– There is a lottery game, who finds the right creams, skis and grinding in these weather.