Forum Nordicum: About controls and embarrassment

A good 2024 international journalists met at the location of the 80 Ski Flying World Championships, gained new insights, but also had to go home with unanswered questions. The first day was traditionally dedicated to the International Ski Federation FIS. The statement from the new cross-country skiing race director Michel Lamplot from the Czech Republic was sobering, as he dealt with the issue of “re-admission of Russian athletes” with a succinct “that won’t work now” sentence and the only innovation was the city competitions in Minneapolis (USA). led. While the Nordic combined hopes at least a step towards Olympic confirmation for 2030 with the introduction of the “compact competition” (the results of the jumping result in a cross-country skiing starting order in which the time intervals are scaled and are not dependent on the results), there is a lack of brilliant ideas in cross-country skiing completely. When it comes to ski jumpers, Sandro Pertile complained about the reduction in the Olympic contingent for men from 65 to 50 in order to achieve gender equality. Former top ski jumper Toni Innauer warned at the “Forum” that one should be very careful when ski flying for women, otherwise it would be downright harmful to health. Fluorine wax ban also in biathlon The International Biathlon Union (IBU) takes a much more structured approach. Christian Winkler highlighted the various development programs that provide trainer training, development camps for “smaller” nations, the organization of regional events and the Biathlon 4all initiative (where practice is carried out with laser rifles). Daniel Böhm then went into the sporting aspect, who, in addition to the new rule that in future only the 6km loop will be run in the mixed relays, gave a detailed talk about the control of the fluorine wax ban. This regulation enforced by the EU means that all skis are checked before every major competition. If an excessive value is determined, the affected athletes will be banned from starting. On the one hand, this takes environmental considerations into account, but during fun runs and amateur athletes, any “jam” possible can still be applied to the skis... South Tyrol was also present In addition to the official statements from the major associations, various sports organizers were also able to introduce themselves in Bad Mitterndorf and present their own events. This time, Toblach from South Tyrol was there with the start of the Tour de Ski (this year on New Year's Eve). And Lenzerheide, host of the 2025 Biathlon World Cup, even advertised with a photo from Antholz... On the last day of the conference, the International Toboggan Federation FIL was also supposed to be present, for which some journalists had extended their stay in Styria. But despite repeated assurances, no one showed up. This was a bitter aftertaste at the end of an otherwise great forum, where we also had the opportunity to visit the impressive ski jumping hill on the Kulm and the now retired Denise Herrmann (biathlon) and Eric Frenzel (Nordic combination) received lots of applause for their remarkable careers were honored.

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Forum Nordicum: About controls and embarrassment

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