– You know that society, and in this case, the Olympics, is not built for you to be there on par with everyone else. Jesper Saltvik Pedersen has won gold in the World Cup and in the Paralympics. He knows what it takes to be one of the best in the world. Now he knows that the best Norwegian top sports have to offer stand in the way to keep him there. – Not risk -free news meets the Norwegian star at the Olympics in Oslo. On the way to the strength room he has to go down a staircase. – I have to look around very well to see if anyone has thought up or down over the next five minutes. So you feel a little in the road, says Jesper Saltvik Pedersen and continued: – When I go down, I often take the fast road myself and roll backwards with the wheelchair. It’s not risk -free either. But it means that I am the least possible in the road, then. And it’s a stupid feeling to have to go with. And the feelings do not get better when he is going to pick up the elevator again. The top sports center at Sognsvann in Oslo is 40 years old. Built in a time when para -sports were not recognized, according to Saltvik Pedersen. Here are some of the biggest challenges, according to Pedersen: Anders England / news Trappa is the first obstacle roller lift in the stairs down to the strength room makes it difficult for wheelchair users, according to Pedersen. – I can know that I am in the way when that donation has to go up and down, he says. Anders England / news does not arrive at the apparatus sports center is thrown. The training equipment is at different levels. In addition, it is difficult to arrive with a wheelchair, according to Pedersen. Anders England / news lacks adapted to the equipment is not sufficient space for training equipment that is adapted to practitioners with disabilities, which Pedersen uses here. It can cause practitioners to train other cities, he says. Pedersen is supported by Karsten Warholm – one of the top athletes who often probably probably trains than at the Olympics. – That this is our flagship, it is not in the style of the achievements we have delivered, says Warholm about the top sports center. He points out that the Top Sports Center is outdated, thrown and simply a patchwork. – The offer is relatively narrow today also due to space. And then you have the building we are in NO, as Leif (Alnes) calls a permanent crisis solution, which should also be much more integrated in the training department that is down. Responds: Karsten Warholm has felt tired of the conditions at the Olympics. Here together with coach Leif Olav Alnes. Photo: Håvard Bergheim / news needs over NOK 1 billion Olympics have long wanted a new national top sports center and now it is starting to rush. The building license expires in 2027. The price tag is over NOK 1 billion. A sum of top sports manager, Tore Øvrebø, hopes can be financed over the state budget. – There are very poor working conditions, it is struggling, it is thrown, it has too little capacity to meet the needs of the future, says Øvrebø. – When a state budget is to be set up, we ask for sufficient funds to be seen with funds for this center. – When does this need to enter the budget? – We should have that for the state budget for the autumn, so that we can start building in 2026, says Øvrebø. The top sports manager thinks they must have at least half a billion kroner over the state budget for a new facility to become a reality. He understands the criticism of Jesper Saltvik Pedersen. – It will require a lot of rebuilding to make it universally formed according to the standards that apply today. First, we have to spend a lot of money on rebuilding, and then it will go beyond the area, so that there will be less activity area, says Øvrebø and add: – We have had a hope of realizing the new center, and tried to keep the investments at existing building stock at a reasonable level. I understand that Jesper thinks it is difficult, and that it is not perceived as 100 % credible that we are a totally integrated sport when the building stock is not, says Øvrebø. NEW CENTER: This illustration shows the top sports center Tore Øvrebø dreams of. Photo: Dyrø & Moen Architects cannot promise a billion total framework for a new top sports center will be over NOK 1 billion. To start the first shovel roof, most of the money must come from the state budget. Minister of Culture Lubna Jaffery (Ap) will visit the Top Sports Center in May. She says they can’t promise anything. – Norway needs an upgraded top sports center. And then the question is to what extent we as a state can be with and contribute. That is why we are in a positive dialogue with top sports and the sports association linked to this. I myself have to look at the center myself and see what needs they have for upgrading and renovation, Jaffery says to news. The Minister of Culture agrees with Pedersen and states that the Top Sports Center “by no means universally formed out”. – We have been clearly described how it prevents the entire sport from using it. It is one of the main arguments too. So it has to be upgraded, being refurbished and built, so that it can be available for the entire sport. Not only the part of the sport that we already have good preconditions for running sports. Minister of Culture: Lubna Jaffery acknowledges that Norway needs an upgraded top sports center. Photo: Håvard Greger Hagen / news – Over a billion kroner can be spent on much other than a top sports center, including children and young people. What do you think about it? – We spend a lot of money on children and young people in the allocation of gaming funds, but also over the state budget, this government has spent great money in recent years to invest in children and young people. We will come up with that. It should in no way go beyond children and young people to build a top sports center in Norway, Jaffery replies. Must ask the caretaker for help back at the top sports center, Jesper Saltvik Pedersen will take the wheelchair lift up again. – Should we see if the elevator works today?, He asks. He turns the key to the elevator, pressing a button, so the ramp can come down to him in the basement. It is this part he always knows a little and is dreading. To be in the way of others. Several practitioners stop at the stairs. They wait. – No, says Saltvik Pedersen. The elevator stopped in the middle of the stairs. “They can go up,” he says, pointing to those who have been waiting. The wheelchair lift stands fixed photo: Jørn Tveter they push past the ramp and come out and out. – There is something that happens at regular intervals. I have to roll around and see if the caretaker is at work, to try to get someone to help and get it. It is an uncertainty, simply, as I think Norwegian top sports should be before, he says. The wheelchair lift eventually comes down, but Saltvik Pedersen knows with himself: – One feels a little in the way when things do not work completely. Published 30.04.2025, at. 18.36
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