The regular victories of Norwegian skiers in World Cup races lead to a decline in spectator interest in the sport due to the lack of competition, the Olympic champion wrote on her Telegram channel. Veronika Stepanova .
The Russian athlete believes that if this trend continues, cross-country skiing will only be watched in Norway.
At the first stage of the World Cup in Ruka, the Norwegian men’s team won eight of the nine gold medals.
– Yesterday I regretted (or mocked, as it seemed to someone) the extremely low ratings of the World Cup broadcast in Sweden. Today it is time to congratulate the Norwegians – they have a record, 328,000 viewers watched one of the ski races on the national television channel on Sunday. There were no such indicators last year.
Just remember that the “Sunday race” is 20 kilometers for men. In which the Norwegians had to win everything – and won. And so things will continue this season – the Norwegians will watch the Norwegians win. And there will be no audience, sharing, coverage anywhere else. At all. I don’t understand why all these races in the Alps – would have organized the Norwegian Open instead of the World Cup, cheaper and more logical, – wrote Stepanov.
Stepanova won the relay at the 2022 Olympics as part of the Russian women’s team. Now, Russian skiers are not allowed to compete under the auspices of the International Ski Federation (FIS) due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
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