At Tuesday’s ski board meeting, the various branches of the association will present their cut plans – if they are unable to present a sustainable budget for 2024. Sports manager for jumping, Clas Brede Bråthen, highlights an outcome that could have major consequences for the sport of jumping. According to Bråthen, Hopp must cut its uncertain income in the 2024 budget from 40 per cent down to 10 per cent. – It borders on irresponsible. It is about the fact that we have to dramatically cut a lot and that cannot be implemented in practice either. Not without putting a stop to show jumping, says Bråthen to news. CRITICAL: Clas Brede Bråthen is excited about what will be the outcome after the ski board’s meeting on Tuesday 19 December. What is now causing the sports manager to rage is that the alpine committee has backed this proposal. – If they see the consequences of that, then I have to remind Alpine what their situation was in 2011, and what we did at the time. Before 2011, alpine skiing was in an economic crisis, and Bråthen claims that jumping and cross-country skiing then stepped in to help the alpine skiers. – We thought it was important to keep alpine skiing in NSF and made a decision that reduced the opportunities to capitalize on the market. And in that case I don’t think this is a nice thank you for the last time from alpine skiing, says Bråthen. OVERVIEW: According to the Norwegian Ski Association’s overview, jumping has a share of uncertain income of 40 per cent. Clas Brede Bråthen is critical of how this economic model is prepared. Photo: The Norwegian Skiing Association does not want to answer Sports manager for alpine skiing, Claus Ryste, did not want to answer the statements and referred to the head of the Alpine Committee, Ola Evjen. – The Ski Board consists of 14 members, all of whom are responsible for adopting a budget for 2024 that is financially and sportingly sustainable for the entire Ski Association, including all departments and branches. All branches are represented in the ski board with one member. The budget for 2024 has not yet been finalized and adopted by the ski board, and I cannot therefore comment on this now, writes Evjen in an e-mail to news. LUCRATIVE AGREEMENT: Here are former Telenor CEO, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, and former alpine skier, Aksel Lund Svindal, back in 2011. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB Norway’s Ski Association is in a difficult financial situation. Earlier this autumn, they asked the branches to draw up cut plans, which could have major consequences for jumps. The branches with uncertain incomes above 10 per cent were asked to submit cut plans to the board meeting on 29 November. There it became clear that the adoption decision was postponed until Tuesday 19 December. Two-thirds of the Skiing Association’s equity lost since 2007 In 2007, the Skiing Association had an equity of NOK 167 million. It has shrunk drastically over the past 16 years due to a series of large deficits: 2008 – deficit of 31.8 million 2009 – deficit of 32.3 million 2010 – deficit of 11.3 million 2014 – deficit of 10.9 million 2017 – loss of 14.6 million 2019 – loss of 13.8 million – First I would say that it would have been very nice to be here in 2007 and have such a large equity capital. What I can say, and put it into perspective, is that the equity is used for activity, says general secretary Arne Baumann. – When we think about the situation Ski-Norway is in now, as a world-leading winter sports nation, I think you will find much of the answer to what the money has been used for. At the end of 2022, equity was down to NOK 63.3 million. The current forecast indicates equity at the end of the year of 52.7 million. It is under last year’s decision to the Skiting on equity. At the time, they adopted the following: “The Skiing Parliament assumes that current equity in the Norwegian Ski Association should be between NOK 55 and 65 million”. Bråthen tells of a dialogue with the Norwegian Ski Association that has been good. According to the sports manager, it is another decision – of the two that he is familiar with – that is the only alternative: It is that jumps must bring in NOK 8 to 9 million in 2024 in sponsorship money without them having to cut back. Something he believes they should achieve. – I cannot believe anything other than that the NSF wants to preserve the sport of show jumping and has faith that it can be restored commercially to the level it was before the NSF put us in the situation we are now in, says Bråthen. – It must be brought up at the Skiinget Bråthen believes that the Skiing Board does not have the authority to force the big cuts for the sport of jumping. – Because then the sport of show jumping is decimated to nothing. And it must be taken up at the Skitinget, says Bråthen. Ski president Tove Moe Dyrhaug does not want to comment on the board meeting before the meeting. She referred to the administration of the Norwegian Ski Association. DOES NOT WANT TO ANSWER: Tove Moe Dyrhaug does not want to comment until after the ski board meeting. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB NSF’s head of communication and society, Espen Graff, writes this in an email to news: – The budget for 2024 will be discussed at tomorrow’s board meeting, and we do not want to make a statement to the media before then. One thing that has plagued the show jumping camp is that show jumping generates a large profit on the event side. But the branch feels that these incomes are not taken into account when the Ski Association assesses how much the branches have to cut. There, they only look at sponsorship and marketing income. – Decisions made now are based on a small proportion of income and do not give the overall impression. If it continues like this, then we could soon be without a jumping nation that is on the map internationally, stated head of the jumping committee Stine Korsen earlier this autumn. The ski board meeting will be held on Tuesday 19 December from 14:00 to 20:00.
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