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16 October 2023 at 21:06 The Ski Board sends the national team conflict to the Norwegian Sports Confederation. For the Norwegian Ski Federation, the last few months have been characterized by the conflict surrounding image rights for athletes who will represent Norway. Since last summer, Lucas Braathen and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have faced the conflict for the national team athletes in alpine skiing. The athletes have not yet signed new national team contracts as a result of the conflict, but they are subject to previous contracts which continue pending a new contract being signed. Cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has also been involved in the conflict. Lawyer Pål Kleven has been engaged for the Norwegian athletes and, according to VG, sent a letter a couple of weeks ago in which he made it clear that the athletes would not sign a national team agreement. The Ski Association’s own legal committee has previously given the athletes their consent on the issue of image rights, but without the national team agreement having been regulated accordingly. The Norwegian Ski Board has now sent the case to the Norwegian Sports Confederation. They write that themselves in a press release on Monday evening. “The Norwegian Skiing Association has addressed an inquiry to the Norwegian Sports Confederation (NIF) to assess the necessary interpretation issues related to the market provisions in the NIF Act. The Ski Board feels that there are different legal interpretations related to these questions,” they write in the press release. Furthermore, they write that it is a fundamentally important question for the operation of Norwegian skiing, and that it may have consequences for other parts of Norwegian sport. “The Ski Board therefore believes that questions of such an important nature relating to the understanding of NIF’s law should not be assessed by a single special association alone, and wants NIF to make an assessment”, writes the Ski Association. news has been in contact with Arne Baumann, general secretary of the Ski Association. He writes the following on SMS: “I have nothing to add now, beyond what we have published on our website. We want NIF to be able to assess these questions in peace and quiet, without us communicating in the media.”



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