– It’s absolutely crazy if they manage to get something for the World Cup there! It’s not a penalty round once, the tiny spot, Ida Lien breaks out. – You can’t go to the Biathlon World Cup there now, that is, in that case it will be roller skiing, says Sturla Holm Lægreid when news shows him the picture. And that’s how most of the reactions are. For just over three weeks before the Biathlon World Cup starts in the German winter sports mecca of Oberhof, there is rain, high temperatures and no snow. Like so many other places in Europe this winter. – It is sad. It has been a warm winter in Europe. Unfortunately, it will be very visible when we go to Oberhof for the WC and there is no snow there now. Then I ask myself if they are going to make it to the World Cup at all, says Lægreid, and admits that he is worried. – Of course, one gets worried. Fears for the winter season after these pictures: – This is unusual IBU guarantees Unlike several winter sports, the Biathlon World Cup has been organized as planned. In Kontiolahti in Finland there was a small snow cover, and it also snowed en route in the chute in Hochfilzen in Austria, but in both Le Grand-Bornand in France, Pokljuka in Slovenia and Ruhpolding in Germany, thin strips of white pistes made of artificial snow were surrounded by green forests. ON THE TEAM: Ida Lien (tv) and Ingrid Tandrevold are worried about the winter weather. Here from a world cup relay last season. Photo: VESA MOILANEN / AFP – You see climate change up close, and it’s a shock to you, says Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, adding that she is more worried about the future than her sport. – We are lucky in the sense that many nations have prepared themselves so that we can carry out according to plan. IBU should have that, if not everything else is a plus. They are good at putting pressure on the organizer that they have artificial snow and a back up, says Norway’s sports manager Per Arne Botnan. And that is also the plan for the WC. Therefore, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) can guarantee that the WC will be held. – They have over 40,000 cubic meters of snow stored from last winter. The snow production from the ski hall next door is a back-back up solution, but I don’t think we need it, sports director Daniel Böhm confirms to news. He says that the WC organizer handles its snow storage very carefully, and that the IBU has a constant dialogue with them. – We have asked them to be so kind as to wait to lay out the snow until we have a safe window so that it will be there until the start of the competition, he adds. – Experienced everything possible But the artificial snow is still not quite enough to secure the athletes before the high point of the year. Oberhof is known as an organizer who offers challenging conditions, both in the form of poor or little snow, gravel on the slopes, wind and fog. – I think we are prepared for most things, and we have experienced a lot of strange things in Oberhof too, so I would like to think there is little snow there. We are used to it being a bit messy there. I think we should be prepared for most things, and then there is a limit to how disappointed you can be, says Tandrevold smiling. INDOOR: In Oberhof there is also an indoor ski hall. – If it gets too bad, we’ll have to move the whole thing in there, says Røiseland about the WC. Photo: Hanne Skjellum / news – In Oberhof I have experienced everything possible. It may well change a little during the competition as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if there is more than one lead in the championship. We’ll have to cross our fingers that there will be some snow in the last weeks before the WC, Marte Olsbu Røiseland says. And it looks like she may get her wish. Yr.no reports that there may be some snow in Oberhof from Sunday evening.
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The image of the WC stadium in Oberhof worries Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Marte Olsbu Røiseland – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcasting schedule
