Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronique Stepanova In her column on , she wrote that time trials are completely unsuitable for the television format and that they are watched mainly by representatives of a generation that is far from new.
The Russian Roller Ski Championship was held from September 15 to 19 in Tyumen. The men’s 20 km freestyle time trial was won by Saveliy Korostelev, and Maria Istomina was the strongest in the women’s 15 km.
“The slopes are world-class, there are several Olympic champions among the participants, but there are no spectators.” Because the program of this powerful event includes “two long time trials (races with individual starts), which are of no interest to the average spectator.” I quote commentator and great friend of the leadership of our ski federation Andrei Romanov.
As an athlete who won the majority of all the time trials I participated in last year, I would say that the time trial is the most objective indicator of an athlete’s strength. As a viewer, I would say that it is absolutely impossible to watch them. It is boring, nothing is clear! The viewer in me beats the athlete. You can’t imagine a race, even 100 meters, even 42 kilometers, in which athletes start sequentially, can you? In skiing, the “cuts” remain from the time when the tracks were one and a half meters wide and trampled by the skiers themselves. And their audience watches, who remembers mostly those moments. You know, when the snow was whiter and the sky bluer.
And sports TV channels are fighting for the category “M 14-59 100,000+”. In translation – young people and men in the prime of life, living in cities with a population of one hundred thousand. I am afraid that “cut lovers” and “target audience” are two different groups of people, “Stepanova wrote.
At the end of last season, Stepanova won the overall standings of the Russian Cup and also became the best in the long-distance running standings. At the end of the summer, the 23-year-old athlete posted a photo on social networks next to her crib and announced that she was about to become a mother and would therefore miss the upcoming season.
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