Radical. Norway has made the decision to simply cancel the Ski World Cup events, all disciplines combined, scheduled on its soil until the end of the season. The announcement was made on Thursday February 11 in a press release from the International Ski Federation (FIS). The cause is the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In view of the restrictions to combat C variantsOVID-19 imposed by the Norwegian government and announced today, the Norwegian Federation is unable to host competitions until the end of the Norwegian Cup season. World ", explains the international body soberly. These mass cancellations concern both alpine skiing, of which a stage of the men's World Cup was to take place from March 4 to 7 in Kvitfjell; cross-country skiing, with competitions scheduled in Oslo (March 12-14) and Lillehammer for the finals (March 19-21); ski jumping, with a nine-day long tour (March 12-21) to Oslo, Lillehammer, Trondheim and Vikersund; and finally the Nordic combined, the circuit of which included a World Cup from March 11 to 14 in Oslo. The FIS has not yet announced what will happen to the various events planned in Norway. It would seek to relocate them elsewhere in Europe, so as not to truncate the end of the season and distort the race for the various Crystal Globes of the World Cup.
