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NEW RULES: New sports guidelines were introduced today. Photo: Bjørn S. Delebekk
When the Norwegian Sports Association released the new guidelines for children’s sport today, it could be interpreted as open physical contact between children up to fourth grade. Rejects the Health Directorate.
The Norwegian Sports Association sent out a press release on Monday afternoon titled: It allows contact between the smallest and “the ball is released”.
“The exception is children up to 4th grade. They can have physical contact unless the groups exceed 10 people, ”says the press release.
The Director of the Department of Environment and Health of the Health Directorate, Jakob Linhave, contacted VG tonight to clarify what he describes as a misinterpretation by the Norwegian Sports Association.
– What is indicated in the guideline that the Health Directorate sent is that for younger school-age children it can be difficult to comply with the one meter rule. Therefore, it is important to have smaller, more permanent groups of up to ten people, Linhave tells VG.
To clear up any misunderstandings, point out the following:
– One meter still applies to everyone in Norway except the best soccer players, who live in quarantine. It is very important to do this well, so that no one misunderstands it, Linhave says.
Communications manager Finn Aagaard of the Sports Association sent the press release.
– We may not have been as clear as we should have been, but there have only been good intentions on our part, he tells VG.
– Younger children know from experience that it may be a little more difficult to observe it from a distance, and that therefore, these are smaller groups where coaches receive instructions on distance and help younger practitioners not to do so. . You should look for situations where they get closer than a meter, says Aagaard.
See images from today’s press conference:
Strict rules
“We have to hold onto ‘crown training’ for a while,” Health and Care Minister Bent Høie said at today’s press conference.
Read the updated FHI guide here.
The government today released a new Sports Protection Guide for Sports, with an emphasis on children’s and youth sports that involve physical contact, such as soccer.
A new assessment of the pre-summer infection situation is planned. The Norwegian Sports Federation summed up the new supervisor with some of the most important points:
- The number of people in regular training should not exceed 20 people. This applies both outdoors and indoors. Everyone must keep at least a meter away.
- The exception is children up to fourth grade. They can have physical contact unless the groups exceed 10 people.
According to the Directorate of Health, this interpretation is incorrect. But since the one meter rule is harder for younger children to have, there should be smaller groups of up to ten people.
- You can use a common ball in sports, even when the ball is thrown with your hands, if the rules of infection in this use are maintained.
- Contact sports in which it is not possible to maintain a distance of at least 1 meter, such as handball, martial arts, wrestling and soccer, cannot function normally, but they must adapt the activities so that the call to distance possible.
This means that handball can be practiced to a greater extent as long as the rules of good hand hygiene are maintained before and after the use of common equipment.
– It is very good for Norwegian handball that we are now allowed to practice handball, be together and cultivate the community a little in practice. Also, it’s great that we can start throwing the ball, which is essential for handball, says handball president Kåre Geir Lio to NTB.
But also in the handball rule at least one meter of distance applies, with the exception of children up to the fourth grade.
– It is up to each individual union to create its own supervisor. In short, events with up to 50 people are allowed under certain conditions, Høie said, stressing that it should be possible to maintain a distance of one meter.
– Now opens for more activity with common equipment, for example. throwing the ball. With this we can say that the ball and other common tactile equipment are acquitted. It provides good opportunities to start a large number of sports activities where the same team is played, says the Secretary General of the Norwegian Sports Federation, Karen Kvalevåg, according to the pages of the Sports Association.
On June 15 it opens for events with up to 200 people.
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The Norwegian Sports Federation is now in dialogue with the various special federations to find solutions regarding the updated regulations.
Last Thursday, the Elite and Toppserien green series wanted to start the series games on June 16. High emphasized that it is the Norwegian Football Association that is responsible for its correct implementation in relation to the Anti-infection Law.
Top football exit experiences will also be used in relation to how the regulations are designed for other sports.
