THE CLOSING CEREMONY

By Emma Christiansen 

The closing ceremony was an awesome experience, and for me a true highlight of Interski! Waiting at the top of the show run for the last time felt very different from the other nights. The energy and the vibes from all the teams was more relaxed, everyone was having fun and taking in the moment.

The ceremony started with a women only run, snowboard only run, telemark only run, and an adaptive run only run. Then went on to every team performing their final demo run.

Many teams had costumes for this run. There was a person dressed as a banana, many kimonos, soccer jerseys, and flags as a few examples. Jeremy had Wally the koala helmet covers on for our run.

After every team’s final run, every team member of every nation went back up to the top of the slope to ski down all together one final time.

Before heading down for this last run we had some wise words of advice. “This run is crazy, you either want to be at the front or at the very back! Don’t end up in the middle”. Some of our team zoomed off to get to the front. I held back and watched as hundreds of people starting skiing, snowboarding, telemarking, cross country skiing, and adaptive skiing down the demo slope.

Whilst skiing down and watching everyone ahead of me. I began to reflect on what a great event Interski Levi 2023 was! Thank you, Levi, for delivering such an incredible and organised event. Another huge thank you to everyone involved, the shared passion for snowsports was truly inspiring!