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– It prices an excessive amount of with 150 days of journey a 12 months, I need to spend the time on my family members sooner or later.
That is what Stig Rune Kveen, coach of the nationwide workforce in ladies’s cross-country snowboarding, stated in April this 12 months. Ten months earlier than the bathroom at house in Trondheim!
The Ski Affiliation needed to discover a resolution to the disaster. It was Marit Bjørgen and Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplas, who might be serving to to this championship.
Was this the reality?
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Ernst A. Lersveen
I’ve labored all my life as a journalist/reporter. He began in native newspapers, then ten years in NRK, then 28 years in TV 2. Labored in snowboarding lately; particularly cross-country snowboarding.
It was stopped
The will for extra time with the household was not the explanation why Kveen didn’t need to proceed.
He needed to cease.
The nationwide workforce coach had began a relationship with the nationwide workforce runner, Anne Kjersti Kalvå. The connection will need to have lasted for over a 12 months.
There isn’t any doubt that this case has eroded the atmosphere inside the nationwide workforce. And administration is alleged to have acquired experiences that the 2 have been having an affair. From the surface trying in, I am shocked it took so lengthy for administration to behave.
Personally, I heard concerning the relationship between Kveen and Kalvå within the spring of final 12 months.
This has been a subject of dialog in Ski-Norway for the previous 12 months.
Such a coach-athlete relationship may be very demanding for all events to deal with. It creates doubt and a whole lot of speak inside the workforce, linked to, amongst different issues, the choice and precedence of the athletes in coaching. It eats away on the atmosphere.
The query is how a lot significance was it?
It can’t be dominated out that the atmosphere inside the workforce deteriorated and that this might have an effect on the performances.
Was that why it went so badly final winter too?
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Have critical penalties
Stig Rune Kveen and Sjur Ole Svarstad had good ends in their first 12 months as coaches, however their second 12 months, final season, was the weakest in years for Norwegian ladies’s cross-country snowboarding.
It’s comprehensible that the nationwide workforce runners stay silent about this. But it surely surprises me that the media doesn’t query the state of affairs and doesn’t point out it.
I learn an interview with Anne Kjersti Kalvå in VG, the place she explains her poor season by saying that she ate too little.
And properly.
However, a minimum of ask Kalvå concerning the relationship with the coach! Then it will likely be as much as her whether or not she desires to reply. As a result of this relationship is just not solely about Kveen and Kalvå, as a result of it had such dramatic sporting penalties, which ended when the nationwide workforce coach needed to resign, lower than a 12 months earlier than the WC.
And the reality is just not “eager to spend extra time with the household”.
I’ve acquired many inquiries from individuals within the snowboarding group asking “why is nobody writing or mentioning that Kveen and Kalvå are lovers”?
I say that possibly there are good the explanation why the media does not cowl issues like this. Like one social gathering there’s a household and it’s for the good thing about the youngsters. However, when it has such critical penalties that the workforce loses a coach, I feel the general public must know why.
Should be capable to stand upright
As for Stig Rune Kveen and Anne Kjersti Kalvå, they haven’t performed something prison, so to talk. It should be good that two individuals discover one another, additionally in sports activities. Together with coach and athlete.
Nevertheless, for a coach, it isn’t suitable to proceed within the teaching enterprise after beginning a relationship with one of many athletes on the workforce you coach. It has been learn and accepted. And it’s positive to be in Kveen’s employment papers.
That the 2, Kveen and Kalvå, did not understand that this was mistaken – it is humorous.
As for the administration, it is extremely damaging, as a result of it took so lengthy earlier than it was acted upon.
And nobody in administration can now say looking back that this case was a shock. As a result of that is historical past once more
As a result of the coach of the nationwide workforce Egil Kristiansen resigned from his place in 2016. The official rationalization was that “he at all times calls for to provide his finest”.
The reality is now: Kristiansen had began a relationship with Kathrine Harsem when she was on the nationwide workforce.
And that needs to be okay. However then one has to have the ability to arise and inform the reality.