– Take a long distance – VG

It happens after VG interviewed Eide on Sunday.

– I strongly dissociate myself from the attitudes emerging from the director general of the Bergen riding club, says Endre Tvinnereim (Labor).

On Saturday, a former stable girl at the Bergen riding club told the story of how she was subjected to sexual abuse over a six-year period.

The general manager of the riding club, Amund Eide, is a personal friend of the convicted Norwegian, who currently has stables in Denmark. Eide denied that there was talk of abuse, despite the fact that two courts have determined it.

Last summer, Eide took underage Norwegians to a riding camp with the convicted abuser in Denmark. The stable owner in Denmark is prohibited from participating in organized sports in Norway for 20 years.

In the VG interview, Eide claimed that if the stable girl has had post-traumatic stress disorder, as the verdict says, it is due to more than just the relationship with her riding coach.

– I want to take the initiative to meet with them shortly after New Years. This will also be a topic in our meetings with the Sports Council in Bergen, says Tvinnereim, who emphasizes that he only knows about the case through the media.

Despite repeated inquiries, VG has not contacted Amund Eide on Monday.

After being asked how the Bergen riding club reacts to its own leader’s remarks, the club’s board sent out a press release tonight.

There, the club strongly distances itself from Eide’s statements and regrets that they were “made under the club’s umbrella.”

“Yesterday and today, the board received questions from various quarters as to whether these statements have any practical consequences for the BRK CEO’s employment relationship.” stated in the declaration.

The Bergen Riding Club Board of Directors is chaired by Ole Seim.

However, he has declared himself incompetent, as his son, a running back for the Norwegian national team, works for the convicted abuser in Denmark. Therefore, it is Congressman Christian Hoff who is leading the case out.

“The combined position of CEO and Head Coach has been a pilot project, which will run from April 4 to December 31 this year. The contract stipulates that the plan will be evaluated by the employer and the employee at the end of the year. This evaluation process has already started and will be completed in the coming weeks » writes the Bergen Riding Club on Monday night.

The club singles out former national team coach Eide as a skilled coach.

“However, there should never be any doubt that BRK as a club distances itself and has zero tolerance for sexual abuse, intimidation and harassment.” The board also clearly distances itself from statements that can be interpreted as a defense or trivialization of serious criminal acts, regardless of whether it is within or outside of sport » stated in the declaration.

Amund Eide has experience as a coach for national teams and was named “Coach of the Year” by the Norwegian Equestrian Federation in 2017.

Faced with the fact that she has organized a horse riding camp for minors on the farm of an abused Norwegian in Denmark, she told VG on Sunday:

– I don’t want to call him a sex offender. That’s what you call it. If you ask people around you, most of the cyclists profiled, have a completely different opinion.

The Bergen Riding Club has had ties to the convict who is still active in equestrian sports through his stable in Denmark:

VG has revealed how the club until recently had a billboard for the man’s stable around one of their courts in Bergen. This was later removed, and the amount of 30,000 crowns will be refunded to the man, according to the riding club.

Recently, VG also showed how the man was allowed to advertise his stable during the Tønsberg Horse Show in October.

He himself claims to have been found innocent and, according to attorney Odd Rune Torstrup, efforts are being made to reopen the case against him.