The management of the Norwegian Athletics Federation criticized by former President Anne Thidemann for their handling of the controversial “alcohol letter.”
– If they knew about it but did not do anything, then it is highly regrettable. If they saw it, but downplayed it, then it too seriously. This is a management responsibility, says Thidemann VG.
She talks about the increasingly widely publicized incident during the banquet by Team Championship in late June. In a letter – written by Grete Etholm and Kristin Sund Teigen on behalf of the athletes – described including a damp banquet where an athlete was so intoxicated that he could not take care of themselves, and it is claimed that none of the Norwegian managers took responsibility for concerned. President Svein Arne Hansen and Vice President Tore Hordnes named and criticized. The former has subsequently claimed that he was not full at the banquet, despite the fact that he in the letter are referred to as “clearly intoxicated.”
– This will drop athletes. That is why we have leaders, believes Thidemann, who was president from 1997 to 2001.
– This is a management responsibility – both during and after the incident, she continues.
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Responds to treatment
The letter from the athletes the Board’s agenda on Thursday. General Kjetil Hilde Skor told VG yesterday that both Hansen and Hordnes to participate when the letter is processed.
– This is not a disciplinary action against them, he stated.
– But they are both criticized in the letter.
– Yes, and we will discuss, but the goal is to combat such incidents from happening again, and then all be there when the letter dealt with.
It reacts Thidemann on.
– On a general basis, I believe that in difficult cases, it is rarely a good solution that criticized parties – or Parties that are part of the criticism – is in treatment, she says.
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– Huge load
Spammers of the letter is also welcome at the meeting, which also takes place the day before the championship. Letter Printer Sund Teigen reacted yesterday at the time.
NOTICES: Kristin Sund Teigen in June 2013.
Photo: Scott Heppell , Ap
– If they really want our opinion on this, so they should not put it to the day before a Norway championship. It is not ideal for us athletes, said Sund Teigen VG Monday.
Thidemann agree.
– Should associated have facilitated a meeting where letter printers could have been present?
– When athletes are so distinct in their reaction, so it would be perfectly reasonable that they respect them, grabbed the matter immediately. I would think that this has been a great burden for alarms and other affected athletes during the summer.
– Invalid decision
Sports Jurist Gunnar Martin Do believe that the planned control treatment is illegal:
– The President and Vice President shall be disqualified. When there is criticism against specific individuals, they are disqualified from the proceedings. It goes without saying, saying Know.
– There will be an invalid decision if they criticized the people present, continues the jurist, and referring to § 2-8 in Norway of Sports Law.
– Note that the provision affects both the right to participate in the decision of the case, and the right to participate in the preparation of the case, such as the preparations of it to a board meeting concludes he said.
You mean to have taken the matter seriously
– We will discuss the impartiality of the board when this matter comes up, responding General Hilde Skor and answers following the criticism from Thidemann:
– We believe we have taken the matter seriously and feel they had a good dialogue with letter printers on the matter.
VG has been in contact with both President Hansen and Vice Hordnes, who did not wish to comment on the case.
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