Before the championship, the company that arranged the World Championship, and is 10 percent owned by the Trondheim municipality, had counted on a surplus of 15 million kronor, and that the surplus would go to activities for children and young people.
But now it's the exact opposite.
"During the period, the ongoing updates have not given any indications of the serious economic situation we have ended up in," they write in a press release and continue:
"We now see that the economic result will show a significant deficit, and it's very sad."
One of the major culprits in the drama, according to the chairperson Åsne Havnelid, was the weather.
"It was a fantastic World Championship, but we were faced with enormous challenges with weather and wind. It led to lower ticket revenues and higher costs for security and transportation," she says.
As a comparison, the result was last time Norway arranged a skiing World Championship, 2011 in Oslo, 68 million in profit.
