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On Sunday, SportExpress released a comprehensive review of Team Surprise, a synchronized figure skating team that was highly successful. Among other things, with a silver World Cup at the Globe 2018.
However, the team is now closed, and in the SportExpressen article, several riders testify how deserved coach Andrea Dohany used the riders as “chickens for chicks.” Several testified of abuse, great mental pressure, and one rider said:
– I was involved when we took the Silver World Cup at the Globe. It was my last race, and it had been my big goal. But I did not feel the slightest joy for the World Cup medals we carry.
Why did not you tell me?
– They brainwashed you so much that it was normal. When you were in the middle you didn’t realize how sick he was. You were constantly powerless and coaches can live with riders who constantly threaten.
“You have not come down, you have gone up”
SportExpress could also publish a secret recording, where Dohany hears about the weight of a pilot.
– You have not come down, you have gone up. You don’t see it, do you? You don’t know You look the same as before. That is why I am asking. Do you control your weight? Says the coach.
The pilot, who had problems with eating disorders, told SportExpress that “nobody should need what I measured “.
– When I was underweight, I wasn’t good enough. When I weighed more, it was not good enough. If it had been a brace it wouldn’t have been good enough, she says.
Andrea Dohany wrote in an email “that you can always improve everything, including how you express yourself”, when she was contacted by SportExpressen.
“We have never talked about dieting, only about eating well. A specific weight has never been required to join the team. It is simply about leaving the programs to occupy a place among the 20 selected for the competition team, “he wrote, among other things.
The disclosure has attracted a lot of attention, and after the publication of SportExpressen, Katarina Henriksson, president of the Swedish Figure Skating Association, told SVT Sport:
– I have spoken briefly with the coach. Of course, we will talk to them and other interested people again to get an idea of what happened and decide what we can do about it, because this should not happen.
“The current audio file is approximately three years old”
According to the information, however, the union is not expected to take the case to Dohany further, and when SportExpressen contacts Henriksson with an interview request, he just wants to answer questions by email.
On Sunday, SportExpress released a review of Andrea Dohany and her actions as Team Surprise visual team leader. How did you react to the text and the recording where Dohany listens to the weight of one of the runners?
“What appears in the article and in the audio file is very serious and should not occur,” says Henriksson.
How did you, as president of the figure skating association, act on the tasks?
“I immediately contacted the current coach and the association president for more information.”
We have been informed that the figure skating association will not proceed with an investigation of Andrea Dohany, but will leave that responsibility to the Landvetter figure skating club, where Dohany is active. That’s right? And if so, why?
“Of course, we want to emphasize that we take this very seriously. Something else would be unthinkable for everyone to surely understand. A safe and secure sports environment is extremely important. However, it is important to remember that the current audio file is approximately three years old and that the association in question is now working very actively on the core issues and I am confident in its work. First of all, it’s a problem for the association that has the responsibility of the employer for the coach. “
Team Surprise represented Sweden and Dohany is also a personal trainer for Anita Östlund, who is part of the Swedish national team. Shouldn’t this be a matter of the covenant?
“Of course, we always have close contact with the players of our national team and a responsibility with those who represent Sweden. As for the coach in Gothenburg, we have a close dialogue with both her and the association. ”
The rider: “How much evidence do they need?”
When the rider Dohany talks to on tape is told that the union is handing over responsibility to Landvetter and no longer investigates, she responds with disappointment, but not surprise.
– They (the union) say they don’t know about this and wonder why no notification was made. This is precisely why they do nothing about it.
– What makes a notification different for the situation? This shows that they do not take the situation seriously. In Stockholm, where there was a fall last fall, there was a notification, but it was not taken seriously.
Don’t you just feel that you, who told your story, receive the support and response of the Swedish Figure Skating Association?
– This doesn’t surprise me at all. That is why no one has reported before, you don’t get help. Close your eyes to that. This makes it much clearer. I mean, is there anything more concrete than an audio file that says a lot of things? How much evidence should (the covenant) have?
In an interview with SVT, the Landvetter association confirms that the coach can continue as usual. This is after the issue was raised at a board meeting on Wednesday.
– That’s right, says the president of the association to SVT.
– We will have conversations with this coach and we will work on these types of questions. Then we will receive great help from the Swedish Figure Skating Association
