– Lousy trails. Skiers are booed on. Add audience fiasco, traffic circus and climate activists to the track. – Let me therefore ask a question: Are you proud of this, Norway? That’s what ski commentator Tomas Petterson writes in a commentary in the Swedish Expressen. Petterson says he is leaving Trondheim both disappointed and confused. – If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have said that this weekend would be a folk festival. 10,000 spectators every day. He writes that the organizers expect 20,000 spectators each day during the WC. – But honestly, I don’t know how to make it work. news has not succeeded in getting a comment from Petterson. Delivered good ski races – We certainly take all feedback and input with us. That’s what Åge Skinstad, head of the World Ski Championships in Trondheim, says. He says that they delivered good ski races from which they learned a lot. – Then we could perhaps imagine a little more people, especially on Sunday. But I am impressed by those who came. – Perhaps we feel that someone evaluated us based on the fact that we had almost organized the WC this weekend. But it was really a trial WC, then. He said they had hoped for between 6-8 thousand spectators throughout the weekend. They ended up at six thousand, despite the slippery road and stormy weather. WC manager Åge Skinstad is satisfied with the ski runs, but would like more spectators. Photo: Torstein Bøe / news – So I’m not sure if we are really that disappointed in relation to our own expectations. But it is difficult to assess other people’s expectations. And on Sunday, there was no doubt about it. A unique event news’s sports commentator Jan Petter Saltvedt says that the trial WC looked very good in terms of arrangements. He hopes that the public’s enthusiasm will be greater for the WC. – People have become extremely picky, unfortunately you obviously save your excitement until it really counts. – You have to be able to convey that this is a completely unique event. It is once in every generation that you get to experience a skiing WC on home ground. Saltvedt says that Petterson likes to kick against Norwegians in this field when he has the opportunity. But he is clear that criticism must be taken seriously. Sports commentator Jan Petter Saltvedt believes that criticism should be taken to heart. Photo: Lars Thomas Nordby / news The audience booing Swedish skiers is something you shouldn’t have. – If there is something the Norwegian public is known for, it is generosity. You have to take that kind of criticism to heart. – Creating a party out of a skiing World Cup does not happen by itself – I hope Åge Skinstad and his people take it to heart. I think people chose the TV – After all, they sold Trondheim as a place with real pressure and good people, so in that sense it was a bit disappointing. But the weather forecast said that no people would come. That’s what cross-country skier Astrid Øyre Slind says. Øyre Slind believes that people chose the TV when the weather forecast reported 20 mm of rain. – We are betting on really good weather for the WC and a bit of Oslo atmosphere, then it will be great, says junior world champion Tuva Anine Brusveen-Jensen. – We have heard Trønders brag about the fact that there are a lot of Trønders to see on the trail. I don’t know if I completely agree with that, says Heidi Weng. – There were people in the stands, so we can hope that more people would line up if the weather had been nice.
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