FIS Nordic Ski World Championships 1993 - Broadcast Opening Sequence

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were a Nordic skiing event sanctioned by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The event was launched in 1925 as the Rendezvous races, and it was in 1937 that the Nordic Ski World Championships were officially referred to by its present name.
In its early years, The event was initially taken place annually - even in Winter Olympic years, but after World War II, the Championships were held every four years from 1950 to 1982. Ever since 1985, the meet was staged biennially in odd-numbered years.
For the fourth time, the Nordic Ski meet once again went to Falun in Sweden, hosting the 28th iteration of the Nordic Ski World Championships that took place between 19 to 28 February 1993. Perhaps, the world's geographical landscape continued to evolve throughout the early 1990s, and that made sense as these Championships were the first since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991. Czechoslovakia, in 1992, peacefully broke up as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, however at these 1993 Championships, both nations competed themselves as combined teams in the women's cross-country relay and team large hill competition in ski jumping.
The event also sought the creation of the combined pursuit where skiers would race one distance in the classical interval style (10km for men, 5km for women) in one day, then follow the next day in the freestyle pursuit event (15km for men, 10 km for women) with the first distance winner going first in the pursuit.
On the ski jumping side, Espen Bredesen finished these championships with two gold medals; he won the world title in the individual large hill event, and then goes on to help Team Norway lift itself to gold in the team large hill.