The skier went to beer before the race

Skier Caterina Ganz, 29, left for beer the night before the race.

The Italian ordered a beer mug from the Trondheim Kisahotel restaurant and sat down with his teammates and service team.

The group celebrated the birthday of Martina di Center, 25. Both Ganz and Di Cententa were skiing the next day on the Italian message team.

– We went to drinks and also celebrated the Federico (Pellegrino) medal. It was nice, Ganz says.

Drinking remained in the beer.

– I took one, little. We cheered on Martina.

The joint night out is very common for the Italian ski team.

– Every night we meet and talk. That’s our tradition, Ganz says.

According to Ganz, the evening will help him relax before the race. Italy finished seventh in the women’s message.

Wines to the cold

Alcohol has also been featured in the team service area at the Trondheim World Cup. For example, the French service team placed wine bottles in the snow project outside their own service.

With the Canadian team truck, the beer basket will deliver the staircase post. At the Austrian service point, there were beer cans in the bag, and the truck is behind the flag of the beer brand.

Krista Pärmäkoski is relaxed about alcohol use of ski teams.

– It depends on whose truck it has and how much it has been drunk. And where it has been drunk, says Pärmäkoski.

– Did Austria not have taken the medal in the combined and the French usually don’t drink wine. It’s a wine country, he points out.

Have you ever seen alcoholic beverages in the Finnish Service Care?

– Yes, this has been seen during a long career.

Have you seen in these races?

– I haven’t seen myself.

French team Jules Chappaz refused to comment on the wine bottles lying on the service.

Finnish rules

CEO of Ski Association Marleena Valtasola told Iltalehti that the Finnish team has made a sturdy alcohol line.

-The service team has spontaneously agreed on internal rules that there is no alcohol on the truck. It is clear: there is no room for interpretation, Valtasola said.

– We want to work professionally. The cold fact is that service work is physically demanding. They get a lot of test kilometers a day and the race days are hectic on schedule. Must be okay and scarp, he added.