The first official FIS sprint World Cup was held in the 1999/2000 season. Morten Brors (Norway) took home the overall trophy and title. He is now retiring.
First Sprint Titlist Retires
FasterSkier · July 12, 2004
His future includes farming.
– I’m going to help my father and brother at the farm, so I will be active 15 hours per day. I might race some local citizen races and possibly show up at the Norwegian national championship this winter. I will use my skis in the future.
What are you going to miss the most, when you are stepping down?
– The atmosphere and camaraderie. Its lots of fun to travel to races with friends.
Morten converted to long distance skier last winter and was a part of the privately funded national long distance team. The results were not great and he lost his spot on the team. Morten has a much diversified background from all disciplines in cross country skiing.
What do you think about the sport’s future?
– I believe it’s important to keep the tradition in the sport and it’s starting to be fewer and fewer traditional races with individual start. I can see the problem with the large number of different techniques and distances, that there can’t be many races for each event when you are going to fit them into one World Cup. I believe that long distance racing will continue to be (increasingly) popular, said Morten Brors.