the ticket office is opening soon!
On the occasion of the Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival, the organization of the Annecy – Le Grand-Bornand Biathlon World Cup which will take place from December 12 to 18, created the event in the middle of the morning this Saturday. The ticket office will open on September 13.
There were not many people in the village of exhibitors at the Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival this Saturday morning. All the morning visitors rushed to the Annecy-Le Grand Bornand World Cup press conference hosted by the mayor of the commune of Aravis and president of the organizing committee, André Perrillat-Amédée who returned in figures on the event, the first edition of which took place in 2013. “It will be the fifth edition, he indicated. Last year, it was 60,000 spectators, 800 volunteers, 250 athletes and 125,000,000 television viewers around the world”.
The numbers should be similar to this year. He insisted on the importance that at this World Cup for the territory: “The values conveyed by the athletes are essential for our young people. »
The elected officials then took the floor in turn, from Martial Saddier, president of the Haute-Savoie departmental council to Antoine Dénériaz, elected to the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, passing by François Astorg, mayor of Annecy or Fabien Saguez, President of the FFS.
Olle Dahlin, president of the IBU returned to the role of France on the world stage. “We see it through this fantastic event that is the Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival, as during the World Cup in Grand Bornand or through its athletes, France is a leading nation in biathlon. »
Then Martin Fourcade spoke. “I experienced my most beautiful emotions in 2017 at Le Grand-Bornand. I wanted to link these two events (the MFNF and the World Cup). They live very well together, one in summer, the other in winter, in the same department and with the support of local authorities. »
The poster was unveiled in front of the two main protagonists, Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet and Quentin Fillon Maillet. The opening of the ticket office will take place on September 13.