Nordic combined stops in Temple Holmenkollen [Presentation]

Saturday, February 6 in Oslo will go & agrave; staged a race of World Cup Nordic combined, as tradition also included all & rsquo; s internal & rsquo; Holmenkollen skifestival, even historic event created in 1892.

Friday 5 February 2016 5 minutes reading time

ACTUALITY'' & Nbsp; HISTORY & rsquo; Holmenkollen skifestival, or Holmenkollrennene, & egrave; an event created in 1892 consisting of a series of competitions belonging to all Nordic disciplines played on the hill near Oslo. The combined & egrave; It was included in the program right from & rsquo; inaugural edition and has since rarely missed the & rsquo; appointment. In 123 years of history there are only 8 winters & ldquo; & rdquo holes; for Combiners, five of them due to World War II (1941-1945). Three other times there were insurmountable problems weather: in 1896 and in 1898 was missing the snow, while in 1954 there was too much wind. Actually & agrave; in 2009 the event trasloc & ograve; Because temporarily Vikersund & eacute; nell''impianto near the capital was intense modernization work in view of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011. & nbsp; Notwithstanding the history of ultra-secular & rsquo; event, the purpose of the presentation will be taken into consideration only the so-called races of first level, ie those included in the program of the Olympic Games, the World Cup and in the calendar of the World Cup. In 2016 the maximum circuit combined to & agrave; stop in Oslo for the thirty-first winter. & nbsp; In other words, the Temple of the Nordic disciplines not & egrave; It was added to the calendar only in 2008- & rsquo; 09 for gi & agrave; cited force majeure. Altogether in Oslo they were held 42 individual races counting towards the crystal ball and additionally 5 competitions coveted world champion (1930, 1966, 1982, 2011) and the first part of the program of the Olympic Games (1948). 28 athletes have to show at least a success. The nordic combined pi & ugrave; victorious absolute & egrave; Norwegian Bjarte Engen Vik, capable of attracting attention 7 times dominating the scene in the second half & agrave; the early '90s. Even the Scandinavian has excelled in all competitions (except one) played between 1996 and 2000! There are seven activities in Combiners & agrave; to have success on the bulletin board on the very prestigious snows of Oslo. Eric Frenzel has 2 statements (including a gold iridescent) cos & Igrave; as Akito Watabe (both in the World Cup). Single hurr & agrave; instead for Magnus Moan, Bj & ouml; rn Kircheisen, Bernhard Gruber, Bryan Fletcher and Johannes Rydzek (Quest & rsquo; it imposed last World Cup in 2011). In terms of nations it dominates Norway hostess with 18 victories followed at a safe distance (10) from Germany. Are then Austria (5), France and Japan (4), Finland (3), United States (2), Soviet Union (1). In this 2016 trial in Oslo are held in early February instead & eacute; end of the season as usual. The reason & egrave; represented by the fact that the Norwegian capital will & agrave; Theatre of the World Cup biathlon March 3 to 13. To find evidence cos & Igrave; Early in Holmenkollen have to go back to 1994 - '' 95. L & rsquo; Italy, albeit fast success, boasting a podium last year by Alessandro Pittin third in the final won by Akito Watabe before Johannes Rydzek.

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