FIS News
Inspection trips mark season warm-up 2016/17
Race Director Lasse Ottesen has been in a period of inspection trips to the venues of the upcoming 2016/17 winter season and everywhere, OCs are gearing up for the weeks to come. Generally, all organisers were well prepared with the plans for the winter in place but in some of the venues, major novelties or premieres will take place or a being thought about for the future.
In an extended trip to Asia, the Race Director visited the Olympic site in PyeongChang where major updates have been done on the cross-country course. All the works are proceeding to schedule and will be done by mid-November. A newly installed lighting system will enable night events for the test events to come. The ski jumping hill has a new inrun track, the windnet is up and all requirements will be fulfilled in time for the Olympic test event in early 2017.
Also at the other Asian venue, in Sapporo, major new ideas have been discussed. The OC and the Race Director inspected an area in downtown Sapporo in terms of the option of having a city race in the two-million metropolis when Nordic Combined returns in 2019. A new inspection in regards to this topic will take place in the winter during the World Cup events.
Major construction works have also started in the Nordic Combined TRIPLE venue of Seefeld where the first step of works leading up to the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships in the Tyrolean venue have begun. Parts of the cross-country course will already be new in the upcoming winter and major work has been done with the entrance to the venue, the bridges and tunnels on the track.
Fellow Austrian venue Ramsau am Dachstein sports a newly structured Organising Committee with the major of the village as the new president at the helm. It is its declared goal to stage Nordic Combined events in Ramsau well into the future, starting with some changes of the cross-country course for the upcoming December edition. Changes on the track will also be done in Chaux-Neuve where the usual 2 kilometre loop will be developed to a 2.5 km lap.
The inspection of the finals venue of Schonach will take place in the upcoming week.
Ruka, the venue for the World Cup Opening, features a new inrun track and a wind net on the south side of the hill and is very ready for the season to get underway.
Source: fis-ski.com
In an extended trip to Asia, the Race Director visited the Olympic site in PyeongChang where major updates have been done on the cross-country course. All the works are proceeding to schedule and will be done by mid-November. A newly installed lighting system will enable night events for the test events to come. The ski jumping hill has a new inrun track, the windnet is up and all requirements will be fulfilled in time for the Olympic test event in early 2017.
Also at the other Asian venue, in Sapporo, major new ideas have been discussed. The OC and the Race Director inspected an area in downtown Sapporo in terms of the option of having a city race in the two-million metropolis when Nordic Combined returns in 2019. A new inspection in regards to this topic will take place in the winter during the World Cup events.
Major construction works have also started in the Nordic Combined TRIPLE venue of Seefeld where the first step of works leading up to the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships in the Tyrolean venue have begun. Parts of the cross-country course will already be new in the upcoming winter and major work has been done with the entrance to the venue, the bridges and tunnels on the track.
Fellow Austrian venue Ramsau am Dachstein sports a newly structured Organising Committee with the major of the village as the new president at the helm. It is its declared goal to stage Nordic Combined events in Ramsau well into the future, starting with some changes of the cross-country course for the upcoming December edition. Changes on the track will also be done in Chaux-Neuve where the usual 2 kilometre loop will be developed to a 2.5 km lap.
The inspection of the finals venue of Schonach will take place in the upcoming week.
Ruka, the venue for the World Cup Opening, features a new inrun track and a wind net on the south side of the hill and is very ready for the season to get underway.
Source: fis-ski.com
