Forgoing the salary of 250,000 kronor

Åsne Havnelid, chairman of the World Ski Championships in Norway, is laying low after the financial fiasco.

And waives his fee of 250,000 kronor.

– I’m not going to make money from this, she tells NRK.

The company behind the Ski World Championships in Trondheim expected to go up 20 million, but instead went down 34 million.

Now you’re stuck with your pants down and with large debts you can’t pay.

On Wednesday, it emerged that the World Cup company – which is owned by the Norwegian Ski Association (60 percent), the Sör-Tröndelag ski circuit organization (30 percent) and Trondheim Municipality (10 percent) – has turned to creditors and asked for help.

“We probably won’t be able to pay this”, they write.

“We probably won’t be able to pay this”

Gives up his salary

At the same time, the company’s chairman, Åsne Havnelid, apologizes and announces that she intends to waive her annual fee of 250,000 kronor.

– I will not make money on behalf of the creditors. Now we must work together to find the best solution. What has happened is serious and very sad and I take full responsibility as chairman, she tells NRK.

”Failure like no other”

It was the other day that the newspaper VG was able to reveal that the financial blow from the Cross-Country Skiing World Championships in Trondheim was greater than initially feared, and that it was a miscalculation of over 50 million kronor.

– How can you calculate so wrong? It’s amateurish, says Petter Northug.

– A fiasco like no other, says Emil Iversen.