{"id":224,"date":"2010-03-09T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-08-21T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:30:40","slug":"the-new-holmenkollen-ski-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/the-new-holmenkollen-ski-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Holmenkollen Ski Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nye Holmenkollen nasjonalanlegg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGh2E6eTuF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A while back, I wrote a post about Holmenkollen, Oslo&#8217;s famous ski jumping arena.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s about to get more famous and attract lots of international attention next weekend during the World Cup trials.\u00a0 Just to give you some background information again, the first competition at Holmenkollen was back in January of 1892.\u00a0 So, that makes the arena 118 years old.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 In 1923, the Holmenkollen Ski Museum openend, making it the oldest ski museum in the world.\u00a0 During it&#8217;s time as a ski arena, Holmenkollen has hosted 9 different international championships, including the 1952 winter olympics.\u00a0 Since 1939, the ski jump has been upgraded 15 times.\u00a0 In 2005, Holmenkollen won 4th place in &#8216;Oslo&#8217;s Structure of the Century&#8217; competition.<\/p>\n<p>So why did Holmenkollen recently experience a 450 million NOK (82 million USD) overhaul if it has been such a great venue in the past?\u00a0 Standards.\u00a0 The International Ski Federation said back in 2005 that the old Holmenkollen structure did not meet the standards to award Oslo the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.\u00a0 The decision in December of 2005 to demolish the current hill (another option was to keep the old hill as an historic monument and build a brand new one) and rebuild makes it clear that Oslo takes ski competitions very seriously and would do just about anything to host the world ski championships in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the plans for the redevelopment in May of 2006, FIS awarded Oslo the 2011 FIS Nordic World Championships in 2011.\u00a0 As mentioned before, next weekend is the 2010 FIS Nordic World Cup, the trials for next year&#8217;s championships.\u00a0 Oslo (Oslo municipality\u00a0is owner and was in charge of the rebuilding process) and the organizers of VM (World Cup) are, among others, very excited to present the world&#8217;s newest ski jump to the public next weekend.\u00a0 Not only is it now\u00a0<strong>verdens mest moderne skihopp <\/strong>(the world&#8217;s\u00a0most modern ski jump), but &#8220;it boasts a world-class feat of engineering,&#8221; according to Roy Evensen, Event Manager for Ski-VM 2011.\u00a0 Most of the new structure consists of <strong>st\u00e5l og betong<\/strong> (steel and concrete), but some of the old struktur was integrated as well, which was a very <strong>komplisert<\/strong> (complicated) process.\u00a0 The new ski jumping hill is very modern and will cater to the athletes, judges, media, and spectators alike.\u00a0 Just to mention a few highlights, there are new judges, improved snow production facilities, wind protection systems, and an ice\u00a0track machine, new spectator grandstands, an improved loudspeaker system, and new scoreboard.\u00a0 Again, that&#8217;s just to mention a few noteworthy features.<\/p>\n<p>On February 3, 2010, FIS approved the new ski jump and exactly one month later on March 3, Annette Sagen officially opened the new Holmenkollen ski jump.\u00a0 However, the day before Sagen jumped, a few\u00a0male jumpers &#8221;tested&#8221; the hill, sparking a big controversy over <strong>likestilling<\/strong> (equality).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the comments in an article I read are for example, were men sent out to test the hill to make sure it was safe for women?<\/p>\n<p>Why does a woman have to be the one to &#8221;open&#8221; the new facility?<\/p>\n<p>Was any of it even intentional or are we making a huge deal out of nothing?<\/p>\n<p>Click on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/debatt.aftenposten.no\/item.php?GroupID=12&amp;ThreadID=295115\">this<\/a> link to see the debate<strong> p\u00e5 norsk<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>I hope the event next weekend is televised so that we can see the new jump in action!\u00a0 Exciting!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote a post about Holmenkollen, Oslo&#8217;s famous ski jumping arena.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s about to get more famous and attract lots of international attention next weekend during the World Cup trials.\u00a0 Just to give you some background information again, the first competition at Holmenkollen was back in January of 1892.\u00a0 So, that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/the-new-holmenkollen-ski-jump\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,3668,913],"tags":[7812,7816,7813,7811,7814,7815],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-norway-and-the-world","category-traditions","tag-2010-trials","tag-annette-sagen","tag-fis","tag-holmenkollen","tag-nordic-world-championships","tag-ski-jumping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}