A fully autonomous unit is set up as the locomotive of Finnish top sports, the model of which has been sought from, for example, Norway. It does not take orders from the Olympic Committee management.
The Ministry of Social and Health’s auditorium in Kruununhaka, Helsinki, was discharged on Tuesday at 11am, well-known and prestigious Finnish Sports Minister Sandra Bergqvist (r.) And under the leadership of this sports industry.
General General of the Football Association Marco CasagrandeCEO of the Ice Hockey Association Sami KauhanenChairman of the Ice Hockey Association Teemu RamstedtAthletics Association’s Board of Directors Ella Junnilaski influencer of the past years, board member of the Skating Association Mika KulmalaA board member of the Sports Federation Esa-Pekka MattilaDepartment of Kihu Arto KuusistoActing Director of the Olympic Committee’s top sports unit. manager Jaana to comeActivities of a group of intaligurates that make a drastic change in the Finnish top sports structure Valentin Kononen and Anu Nieminen and so on.
Although the meeting was located in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the topic of the assembly was the top-level sports of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Sports Minister Bergqvist had convened to the so-called round table discussion of top Finnish top sports on a very wide range, but the big is the site: revolutionizing the top-level leadership of Finnish top-level sports and measurement to the 2025 global requirement.
Stomach fall in the background
The alteration and need of the Minister is primarily due to last summer’s Paris Olympic Games, where Finland for the first time when participating in the Olympic Games was completely without a medal. The stomach launched an unprecedented critical sports discussion in Finland.
Based on the study of the autumn and early years, the main funding of Olympic top sports, the Ministry of Education and Culture, in particular published on 22 January An extensive report on official work on what kind of leadership models for top Finnish sports would be available in the future.
The alternatives were the ministry-driven model, the so-called network management model led by the Olympic Committee’s current top-level sports unit, and the idea of a fully autonomous institution that would only focus on top-level sports and not take over, for example, from the Olympic Committee.
Minister Bergqvist’s statements to Sports after the event was able to conclude that the latter idea was gaining widespread support and that it will be worked on during the spring.
In the spring of the Sports Minister of the Sports Minister To Mika Poutala (KD) Extending Bergqvist emphasized that no final decisions have been made. The transformation is now continuing in two steering groups and more will be heard during March.
Kihu, Jyväskylä, is led by a team that defines the level of success, success and measurement. The locomotive of a change in leadership change is the FSI of the Swedish -speaking sports organization, whose Secretary -General Henrika Backlund is a former active officer trained at the National Defense College.
Snapshot
– In a few weeks, the working groups will meet ministry officials, and at the end of March, a new round table discussion will be convened. There is complete consensus on the necessity of the need for change. The spirit of the discussion was good and the common snapshot was clear.
Although the likely location of the new top sports body is the Olympic Committee, its autonomy would be much broader than the current top-level sports unit. Of course, 100 % freedom is utopia, as even a new institution gets a budget cage around it.
– One of its role models would be, for example, the Norwegian Olympic Toppen, which enjoys very high independence and independence. The body would focus on top sports and nothing else, Bergqvist says.
A prominent group of insiders, which came to the public last fall, has presented a ministry -led model. Valentin Kononen, the chairman of the group, was cautiously hopeful about Tuesday’s debate, but reminded that there is still a long way to go:
– If resourcing, demanding levels and measurement are internationally successful, it will not matter, even if the tax cards for successful experts are in the Olympic Committee.