Critics Norwegians with the new limit on the length of the sticks in the classic races

A few days ago, in the autumn meeting in Zurich, the FIS has established for the classic technique races, the maximum permitted length of the sticks, equal to & rsquo; 83% of & rsquo; height of & rsquo; athlete. A measure attacked today by several prominent members of the Norwegian national.

Tuesday 4 October 2016 4 minutes reading time

The pi & ugrave harsh criticism; net comes from Anders Gl Ã¸ Ersen: & ldquo; not serve & agrave; anything & rdquo; & Egrave; the ruling was reported by Nettavisen. & Ldquo; On the other hand, creates the risk that an athlete is disqualified for using sticks of four or five millimeters pi & ugrave; longer than allowed, you & egrave; absurd. & Egrave; a silly rule, I do not like & rdquo ;. Along the same line of Gl Ã¸ Ersen, who has also announced today the & rsquo; going to focus on the 50 km skating World Championships in Lahti, a specialist of the classical technique as Niklas Dyrhaug: & ldquo; If you really want to preserve the classic technique, did not way to secure all & rsquo; 83% limit. Sticks cos & igrave; long they are not used in any case. & Egrave; True, some have used more & ugrave sticks; Long in recent years, but not & egrave; reached that limit & rdquo ;. L & rsquo; last statement of Dyrhaug & egrave; in reality & agrave; questioning from those reported last week by the Norwegian press, according to which Sundby, last season, would use more & ugrave sticks; long compared to the roof just introduced. it is noted that the measure riguarder & agrave; all the races that are held under the & rsquo; FIS auspices, and John Kristian Dahl, twice winner of the Vasaloppet, he told NRK: & ldquo; L & rsquo; last year I switched to more & ugrave sticks; long, now will have to memorize options return to the previous ones. Therefore memorize options will have to memorize options start training with the ones, which means to work the muscles in a different way & rdquo ;. In any case, & Aring; ge Skinstad, represented Norway in the Committee of the FIS cross-country skiing, assured that gi & agrave; Next spring the barrier potr & agrave; be reviewed if will be found & agrave; an agreement to that effect. Concerns expressed by Gl Ã¸ Ersen and Dyrhaug, also shared by Emil Iversen and Didrik T Ã¸ nseth, they are legitimate, but come rather unexpected. & Egrave; was in fact just as Norway, to Zurich, to push to set the limit to greater lengths (84%), finally coming to a compromise with those who hoped for a roof of & rsquo; 82%.