“Kids meet their Idols” 2018

For the sixth time already we organised this special special cross-country training session for kids of Tyrolian ski clubs and their stars and Idols form the world cup team of the Austrian Nordic Combination.

Nearly 60 young talents trained together with their idols and had the chance to get some advice from the professionals in a fun atmosphere. Everybody enjoyed this afternoon with ambition, motivation and joy. Olympic bronze medal winner Mario Seidl, Franz-Josef Rehrl, David Pommer, Marco Pichlmayer, Cross-country coach Jochen Strobl and jumping coach Christoph Bieler took their time together with the Young Talents Dominik Terzer and Christian Deuschl  and coached the numerous young talents. A lot of action on the loipe and a lot of smiling faces were the result.

The young man from Absam Dominik Terzer who was a part of “Kids meet their idols” himself in 2013, this year won 2 Junior World Championship medals and gave his debut in the Worldcup this season. A beautiful story which found its beginning at the first edition of JumpandReach’s “Kids meet their Idols”.

Beside the challenging and diverse training stations there was enough time to get some autographs and selfies from the big role models.

“It is a great experience to motivate young athletes.  Of course it is great to see that we can fascinate them for the Nordic sport. It was great to see that everybody has so much fun and ambition,” the athletes said delighted.

“The cross-country training was quite exhausting but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. It is a cool experience to train with the world cup athletes and even get advice from them”, the kids were amazed.

Patrick Murnig:”JumpandReach made itself the task to inspire kids for sports and to promote young talents. This is why we are really happy that our “Kids meet their Idols” is such a great success every year. It is great to see that we can motivate the kids to keep working on their dream. A big thank you goes out to all of the athletes, they are doing a great job together with the kids. As you can see the fun does not come to short”.