100 days before the Games in Rio starts presenting TV2 their Olympic teams. Ingrid Halstensen shall fronte broadcasts along with Erik Thorstvedt (53).
28-year-old from Austevoll has been in TV 2 since she was picked as host substitute for Premier League broadcasts in 2010. She never ended in football club, but has worked his way to become one of the panel profiles after several years on the sports desk.
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Currently, she is host of the sports news, and this summer she will thus lead Olympic broadcasts along with former football pro Erik Thorstvedt.
– I still remember my first broadcast on Sports channel as if it were yesterday, and now I’ll be involved in conveying the world’s biggest sports party! It’s great fun and I am very grateful for the opportunity I get now, she says to VG.
Experience
She is happy to be joined by experienced Thorstvedt .
– It is great to have Erik as partner, he is a skilled presenter with a lot of experience that I can take advantage of, a brilliant sparring partner and comic relief, says Halstensen, who is glad she has received spend time building expertise behind the camera.
– When I came to TV 2 had I worked in a small film company in Bergen, so I had no idea what I went for. The testing in the studio went then, to speak. I suspect someone has been spared on the cliffs to a (u) suitable occasion. Now in retrospect I am very happy that it went as it went then. The experience of years on the desk, I would not have done without.
From the Olympic opening August 5th until the lights go out after the closing ceremony on August 21, the TV2 send several thousand hours of live Olympic sports on its channels. During these 17 days will 10,500 athletes from 204 nations competing in 28 sports, 42 disciplines and across 306 medal exercises.
Along with aforementioned Thorstvedt being Halstensen a regular on the screen. But so far in her career, she has not exactly been a regular in newspapers and magazines – or online for that matter.
BIG TASK: No doubt that the Olympic job in Rio is Ingrid Halstensen biggest task in TV2 ago she joined the channel in 2010 and she has during these years gained extensive experience as a reporter on the sports news.
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– There is no worse than that I have received very few requests to do interviews so far. I often talk about work and leisure, but want to keep my private life private, says Ingrid who is currently in Jamaica to meet one of the world’s athletics stars, Usain Bolt.
Austevoll
There she naturally has not managed to keep to themselves, the lush Austevoll dialect’s, which once had a separate thread on VG-ed pages.
– Sometimes such threads part of the package when you’re on TV. Personally I would rather be loved or hated, than the crowd that no one has any idea about, says Ingrid.
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– What do you do on the days you’re not on your TV screen?
– Then I can relax for all it’s worth. As I naturally do not have a very social life in work weeks because of long work, I try to spend time with family and friends. Benefiting happily home to my parents in Austevoll, where do I get connected completely with both sea and mountains.
TV 2 started planning the Olympics in Rio while the Winter Olympics in Sochi was over two years ago. Ingrid Halstensen which together with Thorstvedt presenter Olympic broadcast TV 2 from the studio in Rio, does not deny that it is a huge task she stands in front.
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Rio
– Summer Olympics is massive, much bigger than the winter Olympics if one looks at the number of branches, athletes and medals be awarded. So there is much to acquaint themselves with, and it pops up constantly new Olympic knowledge in the cylinder head. I’ll be working normally throughout May, before I get to use much of June to take a deep dive into the Olympic matter, she said.
In addition to Halstensen and Thorstvedt shall Annemarta Giske lead studio from Oslo, while Arill Riise manage news from Rio. Siri Avlesen-Østli bald athletics broadcasts, while Julie Strømsvåg head baseball broadcasts.
TV 2 have paid large sums for the Olympics in 2014 and 2016, according to Aftenposten about 100 million. Ingrid Halstensen says this about the pressure she felt at knowing that TV2 paid large sums for the rights to the Olympics in Rio.
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– Regardless of what things cost, you will always know the expectations, both from employer and yourself. NRK has done a very good job of conveying the summer Olympics, we have big shoes to fill. In addition, this is the biggest challenge I’ve gotten this far in TV 2, so I naturally want to do a good job and show me worthy of that trust.
Project for the Olympics in TV2 Christine Espeland says that TV2 biggest profiles also this time with the Olympic team, while she promises that there will be wagered new and different.
– We know how much interest there is for the Olympics in Norway and has rigged us then, but a wide offer around the clock. We have worked with the comment-our staff in eighteen months and coaches them until the Games starting August 5th, says Christine Espeland.
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There is also no doubt that the Olympic job in Rio is Ingrid Halstensen biggest task in TV2 since she started the channel in 2010. she has over the years gained wide experience as a reporter on the sports news. She also made the evening program in conjunction with Arctic Race and been a presenter for Veko magazine and uteankret sports news in connection with several of TV2′s major events like the bike, Norway Cup and XGames.
– As program managers shall Erik and I do our best to bring the sports Event in Rio home to Norway. We will get viewers to feel the mood, emotions, ups and downs, gold tears and despair. All Rio has to offer, says an enthusiastic Olympic host.
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