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During the spring meeting of the sub-committees of the FIS held in Zurich in recent days has discussed the possibility sector to create a feminine Nordic combined, yet only Olympic sport exclusively for men.
Thursday 17 April 2014 3 minutes reading time
The director of the Nordic Combined Horst Hüttel and the race director Lasse Ottesen presented the proposal to hold at the beginning of September the first international training camp in Oberstdorf,'' under the aegis of the German federation. Before finalizing the program all the national federations will be asked for their feedback on the matter.
In all honesty the proposal is puzzling, at least to the timing with which it is presented. '' It puts forward the idea of ​​creating a female sector of the Nordic combined when the'' similar movement in the jump, born in 2002, is still struggling to establish itself after three four-year period.
It should be noted that after the rapid expansion took place until 2013, in the last twelve months, the female jumping has suffered a "recession" from a technical point of view (favored by many injuries to athletes cry) and a geographic point of view (retreats and Wendy Vuik Bigna Windmüller erase the fact of the Netherlands and Switzerland from competitive nations in the maximum circuit).
The mirror of this sudden, as acute crisis of the movement is the fact that in 2014 there will likely the version of "pink" because of the Summer Grand Prix no organizing committee is expressed an interest to organize a women's race.
In other words, it is natural to asking yourself if it is worth to spend resources to build from scratch the Nordic combined, when prices in the industry "cousin" jump are in sharp decline, and if so it would be appropriate to prop it as soon as possible.
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