kosmonaut said:
Mrnicknor said:
the sceptic said:
No one believes the stone grinded skies excuse except for norwegians.
That`s a joke. Even me as a guy just doing some ski races for fun can feel enourmous difference. Poor skies/wrong structure is like gliding along with a feeling of glue under the skies.
Doping in XC skiing thread >>>>
(been through the stone grinding multiple times)
Btw: Can't believe the journalist in the Aftenposten article from 2013 didn't reply this when Ørn said he used to use injections on his riders: "What did you inject?"
Christiansen in VG seem to be the only Norwegian journalist with a slight knowledge of doping and the guts to ask people about it. Sadly it seems like he doesn't choose (or are allowed) to do more on the subject.
I can totaly agree that the amount of critical journalism about this topic in Norway is a bit lacking. Guesss it will always be easier to attack over the border the inside......
Christiansen and a coworker of him, Stenwig i think, defenitly have a more critical/realistic view on this than most norwegian journalist. Would be interessting to hear what he had to say about this topics off the record so to say.
But still, the number off top athletes testing positive in norway is quite small and the " social price" of beeing caught is high. A russian skier got caught, they named a school after him in his home town the year later....
When Kjærgaard finally admitted his sins, the pressure on him was so big i honestly thought he might to something drastic.
I certainly understand that the "country x moral is better" argument is useless, but there is a big difference in how the viewers and fans react towards doping. In some countries the attidue is "tough luck", "name of the game". It`s not like that in Norway. But i am bias of course, and since we never had a festina scandal or puerto case here we really don"t know how the reactions would be. Kjærgaard was an easy target in such sense.