Russian TV Channel One to broadcast Cross-Country World Cup competitions
Nov 28, 2019·Cross-CountryChannel One is the most spread public TV channel in Russia with an audience of around 130 millon people. So far in Russia mainly only private sport channels have shown selected FIS Cross-Country races. As of this season, Channel One has 15 FIS Cross-Country World Cup competitions on their programme.
4-times Gold Olympian and 14-times World Champion Elena Välbe supports the decision to spread Cross-Country skiing in her country and will join the team as a TV commentator in selected events.
Channel One will mainly show the sprint competitions and thus have the races of the men and women covered. The relay race in Lillehammer, some races of the FIS Tour de Ski performed by Le Gruyère AOP are fixed on the programme as well as they have an interest in showing the 50km in Oslo, but this will be finally discussed closer to the event.
The World Cup is starting on Friday, 29th November in Finnish Ruka. It is the season start into a busy season but without any World Ski Championships or Winter Olympic games. Elena Välbe still knows good reasons for winter sports enthusiasts to tune in the Channel One programme:
Find the full interview and report (original text in Russian) here.