Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she called the Legkov race the main event of the ski season and also noted that in this competition she sees the prototype of a future professional league or a series of ski races .
The tenth race of Olympic winner Alexander Legkov took place from February 23 to 24 in the Moscow region. Ski competitions took place between professionals, between amateurs and between children over different distances. The price of the ride was 5 million rubles.
— The first place in my personal ranking of the ski season is occupied by the Legkov race. Everything has been thought of: accommodation, the course, bonuses for professionals and souvenirs for amateur skiers. It turns out that with good organization, professionals and amateurs do not interfere with each other, on the contrary, they find benefit and pleasure in communicating with each other; And skiers and biathletes have a chance to meet, communicate, as they say, “hang out” in an informal setting (that is, at a party) with representatives of business and media, with active amateur skiers, with the “outside world”. »
I would like to point out in passing: only these ski racing enthusiasts count, because they have a certain influence on the processes. I have talked more than once with Legkov himself on this topic – he reacts to what is said on the Internet, for me it is just a background, I do not pay attention to it and I don’t plan.
I don’t know whether this event is profitable or not, but the show turned out to be very interesting and useful. And above all, all this is financed by sponsors and patrons. It is in the Legkov Race that I see the prototype of a future professional ski racing league or series.
In the future, I would like to see in this series both a mountain climb in Kirovsk and an urban sprint in Luzhniki (planned, but did not take place). What prevents you from planning and organizing a ski race from the Volga to the slopes of, say, the Kazan Kremlin? And Novgorodsky? If it is an architectural monument and it is prohibited, then sorry, the question is deleted, but my idea is clear, I hope. It is necessary to think about how to organize ski races in places visited by tourists during vacations, and not randomly in remote villages. And from the unsuccessful experience of combining the interests of professionals and amateurs, draw conclusions and try to prevent this from happening, ”Stepanova wrote in her column on .
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