The giant rage against Norway after the decision in the World Cup – the profile looks completely red: “It’s bullshit”

Norway’s unusual decision in the World Cup has been met with strong reactions.
Now it’s crazy saw by the former cross-country skier Devon Kershaw.
– It’s bullshit. Just shut up, he says.

The Norwegian Skiing Association is in a financial crisis, and the athletes are paying the price. The next competitions of the World Cup are in North America, but for those competitions Norway has sent a reduced squad, and the reason is that they simply cannot afford to send all the athletes who are actually qualified and ready to compete.

Great anger at the decision

In the World Cup there is a “red group”, which consists of the 15 best athletes in sprint and distance in the World Cup in the last twelve months. The riders who are in the red group receive subsidized travel costs and hotels paid by FIS, and it is only riders from the red group that Norway chooses to send to the other side of the Atlantic. This means that several stars are forced to stand over.

Henrik Dönnestad, Eagerness Tildheim Andersen and January Thomas Jensen, who have all been on the podium in the World Cup this season, all get to stand over the competitions. And that gets the former cross-country skier Devon Kershaw, from Canada, to see red. In her podcast, “Devon Kershaw Show”, she rages against the Norwegian Confederation.

– It is ridiculous for Norway to keep World Cup winners at home because it is not in the “red group”. Look at every other nation’s budget. It is bullshit, he says according to Dagbladet.

“Just shut up”

Kershaw, who won World Cup gold in the team sprint in Oslo in 2011, believes that other nations are able to make the same trip, and that the Norwegian Skiing Association must be held responsible for the decision.

– Just shut up. One way or another, the US manages to have a team and beyond in Europe from the second week of November to the end of March, he says.

Kershaw also believes that it is time for the association to examine themselves and see where they can save money elsewhere.

– If you have such a fragile budget that even World Cup winner Jan Thomas Jensen doesn’t get to go to a competition that suits him, then maybe you should go into the office in Norway and look over the administration and where the redundant staff are, he says.