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The & nbsp; & nbsp Norway; render & agrave; notes tomorrow national teams of cross-country skiing; c & rsquo; & egrave; however still a problem to solve, one related to & nbsp; Petter Northug, whose situation & egrave; quite delicate.
Thursday 23 April 2015 3 minutes reading time
The King of Falun, which in recent years & egrave; trained with a private team, you will encounter & agrave; today with the leaders of the federation to discuss priorities & agrave; next winter. L & rsquo; & egrave under dispute; relative to its main sponsor Coop.
According to the Norwegian policy in fact athletes belonging to national teams can not have trade agreements with competitors to those of the FIS. Moreover, from next season, the Fed seems willing to admit to the races first level only athletes belonging to one of the national groups.
According to these simple rules, Northug would be facing a double problem: if you were to accept the & rsquo; offer of the federation and back cos & Igrave; the national group, it would be forced to terminate the contract with Coop, which & egrave; bound for another year. Conversely, if you decide to continue to train alone, should give up the World Cup and the evidence of multistage 2015-16, veering his attention on the long distance races circuit Swix Ski Classic.
The solution could be a compromise: Northug could get into the national teams participating, however, only a part of the evidence of the World Cup, remaining tied to Coop during the long distance races.
We just have to wait l & rsquo; formalization of the teams of cross-country skiing in Norway scheduled for tomorrow, and for which the Director & Aring; ge Skinstad anticipated that & ldquo; we have a lot of things to tell about it & rdquo ;.
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