Time out scheduled for ski jumping in Zakopane
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
17.12.2015 18:44
The men's ski jumping championships in January 2016 may be Zakopane’s last before a break for modernisation.
The Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane. Photo: wikimedia commons/Mmichaal
After the current season, the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) approval for using Zakopane’s Wielka Krokiew (Eng. – Great Rafter) will end, leaving Poland’s place on the calendar with a question mark.
“Zakopane will return to the [ski jumping] calendar if [the hill] is modernised,” the President of the Polish Ski Association, Apoloniusz Tajner, stated at a press conference in Kraków.
The regional sports centre is in the process of preparing a public tender for the renovation project for the hill, which Vice-President of the Polish Ski Association Andrzej Wąsowicz expects to last “half a year”.
Poland cannot count on Walter Hofer, ski jumping director of FIS, “turning a blind eye” on the International Ski Federation’s deadline for September, Wąsowicz continued in the interview.
The last FIS tournament to be held at Wielka Krokiew is scheduled for 22-24 January of 2016. (ua/nh)