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If the fluoride ban had already become a reality this season, Myhlback believes Sweden would have been the winner.
– When it was decided that there would be a ban on fluoride, there was a great development of the alternatives, we only injected products that we started testing in May. I really wanted to continue with them and I know we did a much bigger job than other nations to find these products.
The ski association works with various producers to find the right dock.
– I don’t know what they have on their dikes, however, I’m sure they follow the chemical legislation of different countries, says Myhlback, who has ridden professionally for the last ten years, including in Norway.
The Swedish wall team has tested many alternatives to fluoride ahead of the season. Stock Photography.
Photo: Mathias Bergeld / Bildbyrån
A little over ten years ago it was a study at Örebro University Hospital where levees in the Swedish national team were followed for three years in length that showed a sharp increase in fluorinated substances in the blood of the levees.
“The levels are maintained from one season to the next and can lead to long-term health effects even after the end of exposure. People who work as walls have, on average, fluoride levels 100 times higher in their blood than the normal Swedish population ”, stated the thesis.
– Many things have happened with the work environment, we have received much stronger ventilation systems and personal protective equipment with fresh air masks. Fluoride whey is not good for our environment, but the whey industry represents a small fraction of the fluoride the industry consumes, Myhlback says.
Even if the production of fluoride whey is reduced, the cross-country ski team will continue to ride fluoride whey skis.
– We are doing well this season, we will wallow with fluoride and we will do it as long as we can.
Thomas Wassberg took gold and Christer Majbäck bronze in the 1987 Oberstdorf World Championship three-mile race. The championship in which skis were first cut with fluorine.
Photo: Jan Collsiöö / TT
Christer Majbäck was present in the 1980s when the fluoride wall broke down.
– Thanks to fluoride, or it depends on how you want to approach it, you were faster, says Majbäck.
The Italian team was the first to put fluoride powder on skis during the 1987 World Cup in Oberstdorf.
Then it came in paraffin and in liquid form.
Skiing with fluoride brings great benefits to the skier.
– If it’s really wet and watery, that’s a five, ten minute gain from 15 kilometers, a bigger difference than what the blood doping did. If it’s cold, dry, and harsh, it may be a minute.
For 25 years Majbäck, who won the World Cup bronze in the three-mile race in Oberstdorf, runs the Skigo company in Kiruna, one of the leading manufacturers of ski whales.
– I’m sure we drive without fluoride, it means we go back to skiing more the old-fashioned way, there will be more skiing than skiing, he says.
During the winter and spring, Majbäck has worked hard with various raw materials as an alternative to fluoride.
– You chase opportunities and try to find straws, now I don’t want to go into exactly what it is. But there is a long way to go.
Majbäck doesn’t think so exaggerate the environmental hazard with fluoride.
– It is estimated that 0.005 percent of the total part comes from fluorine.
He is critical of how the International Ski Federation has pushed the issue of removing fluoride from ski slopes.
– Unfortunately, there is a great risk of cheating if you do not have safe measurement methods, it will be much easier to cheat. It is not known who has won if there is no one hundred percent measurement method, then we run the risk of destroying the entire sport of skiing.
