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Norwegian skiing lives in a world where gold is more important than anything else, and where doping rules and harmful substance bans are silly and troublesome obstacles. And it’s always someone else’s fault. Go away!
By Snorre Valen, Political Editor of Nidaros
This is a comment that was first posted on Nidaros. It is the attitude of the writer that is expressed.
What happened to Norwegian skiing?
A lot has happened since Ulvang took on Samaranch, and we all applauded Smirnov at the finish line in Lillehammer.
There seems to be no limit to the gray areas that Norwegian skiing is finally ready to explore to win another dozen gold medals in sporting exercises that interest some other countries, while all wrapped up in a healthy core aesthetic.
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But the world’s cool outdoor clothing and fruit commercials can’t beat the decisions our own national ski teams make when the gold is at stake.
Snorre Valen, former SV parliamentary representative, now political editor in Nidaros.
Photo: Geir Mogen
Postpone the ban on fluoride
The International Ski Federation has now decided to postpone the ban on fluoride in the lubrication of skis for one year.
The reason is simply that since test methods that can adequately reveal the use of highly harmful and environmentally hazardous lubricants have not yet been developed, there is a risk of unfair races in which someone cheats.
That may sound reasonable, that. If one does not have effective methods to expose the traps, it is true that national teams that want to break the rules, poison nature and their own lubrication equipment, can do so and gain a competitive advantage.
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Logical deficiency
But then common sense awakens. What exactly is the logic here? Yes, it is like this: The page Some may be uninhibited enough to use environmental and health damaging fluoride to cheat on skis, we must allow everybody uses a fluoride that is harmful to the environment and health.
That the assumption is that everyone will cheat probably says something about what kind of role models these national teams are for the growing family.
And what’s next? What would that logic look like in the real world? Should we break HSE rules and allow any toxic emissions harmful to the environment because our business community may lose out because not all other countries have banned it?
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DECLARED: Tiril Eckhoff.
Photo: Geir Olsen (NTB)
Case i nullsumspill
Cross-country skiing, with all its speedy goggles, knitted sweaters and overrated wool underwear collections, has become a case in zero-sum games, where a lack of trust among national teams means that everybody they must be able to do something that they veterinary it’s not ethical. Instead of making it obviously sensible to say that they want to put the environment and health first, even if the ban came quickly, there have been complaints and sighs from the brink that the ban has come too quickly.
– Hell to fluoride lubrication buses
Worse are the reactions from the Norwegian side now that the postponement is a fact. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been surprising, given Eirik Myhr Nossum’s remarks in 2018, when the national team coach told Aftenposten that “If our competitors have it and it is not illegal to use it, we want it too”.
Grovest were the statements of Tiril Eckhoff to NRK, who managed to say that «it’s like you don’t get sweets, and then you get sweets anyway », before she complained that “hell” The team had to clean the lubrication buses to detect fluoride. Johannes Thingnes Bø referred to the ban as “Hopeless”.
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I’m glad I’m not a part of this world
I’m glad I don’t live in a world governed by the same moral standards as the national ski team, where gold medals are more important than life and health. So important that runners next year insist on using toxins that they know are dangerous and that they know will eventually be banned shortly.
Atomizers and inhalers
Both coaches and runners seem to live in a world with completely different laws of nature and different logic than the rest of us do. A world where nebulizers and inhalers are a fixture behind the doors on the second floor of the oversized lubricated “bus,” with none of the coaches and runners seeing any ethical issues at all, and where never, ever, the runners are at fault when they are prohibited from breaking over doping rules. They are you our runners!
And now: a world where the use of environmental toxins that destroy people’s health is fine, because if not, someone else can win medals.
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Marginal advantage in a fringe sport
We know how harmful and damaging to the environment is the use of fluoride in the lubrication of skis. However, Norwegian cross-country skiers and biathletes will use it next season to win.
They’ll probably win a ton of gold this season too. But athletes who, with their eyes open, choose to expose both people and nature to the danger of gaining a fringe advantage in a fringe sport are not role models for anyone.
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