On Wednesday evening, a preliminary period was put on the financial situation for jumping in the Norwegian Skiing Association. Earlier this winter, the Ski Jumping Management was given until January to submit an action plan for the rest of the Ski Board. On Wednesday, a board voted unanimously to approve the jump’s 2024 budget, despite failing to find a new sponsor. – The Ski Board received a good briefing on how the Jumping Committee works to secure new income, as well as which cost-saving measures can be implemented if the income is delayed or not forthcoming, says ski president Tove Moe Dyrhaug to news. – Based on the report the Ski Board has received today, and the revised budget the Jump Committee has presented, the jump’s budget was unanimously adopted at today’s board meeting, says Dyrhaug. news’s jumping expert, Johan Remen Evensen, believes the outcome of Wednesday’s board meeting is a “good solution”. – If the Skiing Association had said that they don’t believe that jumps get sponsors and started cutting funds already now, then it would have been very brutal for jumps to be able to continue with both support equipment and going on trips, says Evensen. – From a sporting point of view, it is important that you are allowed to continue as you are doing now. So one must rather look at savings when the season is over, he continues. Head of the jumping committee, Stine Korsen, told news last week that they are in dialogue with several potential sponsors. – We think it will materialize within a reasonable time, says Korsen. – If, against all odds, none of these initiatives are realized, the Jumping Committee is prepared to implement the necessary cost-reducing measures for the rest of the year of around NOK 6.7 million so that a zero result is reached, Korsen continues. news has tried to get in touch with the sports director of the national show jumping team, Clas Brede Bråthen, but was unsuccessful. Without a main sponsor for two years The finances of the Ski Association have been challenging for a long time. In particular, the national show jumping team has been looking for sponsors for the past two years, after LO withdrew as main sponsor after the 2022 season. In recent months, news has written several stories about the process around landing the budget for 2024. At a board meeting on 25 October last autumn, the board of the Skiing Association decided that the branches with more than 10 percent uncertain income should prepare cut plans and present them at the upcoming board meeting. An overview from October then showed that jumps in the budget work for 2024 had uncertain market revenues of 13 million, corresponding to 40 percent of the budgeted revenues. At the same time, head of jumping Clas Brede Bråthen opened up in an internal memo to detach jumping from the Ski Association financially. Decision postponed several times Neither at the board meeting on 29 November nor 19 December was a budget for jumps adopted. Instead, ahead of the meeting in December, Bråthen was very critical of a proposal that came from the alpine committee, which meant that jumps had to cut uncertain income from 40 to 10 percent. The board meeting in December ended with Hopp getting January to present an action plan to reach the budget target. Furthermore, Bråthen said just under three weeks ago that he has resigned from his position as sports manager for the jumpers and made harsh criticism of the leadership of the Ski Association. For a long time, he has been critical of the fact that event income from show jumping has not gone back into the jump’s budget. The head of the jumping committee, Stine Korsen, told news last week that they were in dialogue with several companies.
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The ski board approved the ski jumping budget – may have to cut 6.7 million – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcast schedule
