Seeing as I can’t find any mention of it elsewhere on the forum, I just wanted to start a thread about the end-of-year ice gala at Oberstdorf.
Firstly, despite what I was starting to think this time last month, the 2013 Eisgala is going ahead, and there are still a few tickets available.
This year’s cast includes Ilja Kulik, Carolina Kostner, Sarah Meier, Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gaszi, and “lots more international stars”.
For a few years now, I have been thinking about going to the Oberstdorf Eisgala.
The Eisgala is always held on the evening of competition day of the first round of the Four Hills Ski Jumping tournament. And I have often thought this would be a perfect opportunity to kill 2 birds with one stone. Go to my first ski jumping competition, and to go to my first skating show.
And I thought this year would be perfect, as it would be the last opportunity to see a lot of people (in both sports), as they will be retiring after this Olympic season. :disapp:
But, I had been checking out the www.eisshow.de website all year, and there was no sign of any mention of the gala in Oberstdorf. The only show that I could find any mention of was the other show they put on, at Ingolstadt.
So, that started me thinking that this year’s show had been “put on ice”, because nobody wanted to perform at it with the Olympics coming up.
As it turned out, it was just a case of the Oberstdorf show not being announced until the last minute. By which stage it was too late to get tickets for the ski jumping and book flights. Grrrr!!! So, I’ll be sticking to Eurosport again this year.
But, if anybody else wants to go and is able to make arrangements to get to Oberstdorf, the tickets can be bought from the Oberstdorf website. (And thein lay my problem - I was looking at the promoter's website instead of the venue's!)
As I said above, the Eisgala is again being broadcast on Eurosport. But, I’ll post the full broadcast schedule in this thread nearer the time (we all know what Eurosport is like for changing schedules!)
If anybody is going, I hope you enjoy it! I'm sooooo jealous of you!!!
CaroLiza_fan
Firstly, despite what I was starting to think this time last month, the 2013 Eisgala is going ahead, and there are still a few tickets available.
This year’s cast includes Ilja Kulik, Carolina Kostner, Sarah Meier, Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gaszi, and “lots more international stars”.
For a few years now, I have been thinking about going to the Oberstdorf Eisgala.
The Eisgala is always held on the evening of competition day of the first round of the Four Hills Ski Jumping tournament. And I have often thought this would be a perfect opportunity to kill 2 birds with one stone. Go to my first ski jumping competition, and to go to my first skating show.
And I thought this year would be perfect, as it would be the last opportunity to see a lot of people (in both sports), as they will be retiring after this Olympic season. :disapp:
But, I had been checking out the www.eisshow.de website all year, and there was no sign of any mention of the gala in Oberstdorf. The only show that I could find any mention of was the other show they put on, at Ingolstadt.
So, that started me thinking that this year’s show had been “put on ice”, because nobody wanted to perform at it with the Olympics coming up.
As it turned out, it was just a case of the Oberstdorf show not being announced until the last minute. By which stage it was too late to get tickets for the ski jumping and book flights. Grrrr!!! So, I’ll be sticking to Eurosport again this year.
But, if anybody else wants to go and is able to make arrangements to get to Oberstdorf, the tickets can be bought from the Oberstdorf website. (And thein lay my problem - I was looking at the promoter's website instead of the venue's!)
As I said above, the Eisgala is again being broadcast on Eurosport. But, I’ll post the full broadcast schedule in this thread nearer the time (we all know what Eurosport is like for changing schedules!)
If anybody is going, I hope you enjoy it! I'm sooooo jealous of you!!!
CaroLiza_fan