Racing director Lasse Ottesen is said to have sold out in the tone at the Ski World Cup. A Norwegian combiner calls for the resignation of his compatriot – who says that he has been fed wrong.
German winter sports fans of the older generation know Ottesen as the main character of a scandal, which in 1994 contributed to the fact that Jens Weißflog narrowly missed the victory on the four-hill tour.
Now there is great excitement for the former ski jumper, who is now a race director for the World Association FIS.
Lasse Ottesen caused a whirl for a whirl in Norway
Ottesen is said to have sold out badly in the tone
Ottesen is responsible for the Nordic combination and was dealt with at the World Cup with the affair around his compatriot Jörgen Graabak, who was disqualified after the team competition on Friday due to a non -compliant binding.
What is now talking about Ottesen: he is said to have sold out badly in the tone when dealing with the events behind the scenes. On a phone call near the interview zone, he is said to have said: “I would like to kill the entire Norwegian team.” The sentence is said to have been recorded, as reported by the newspaper Aftenposten , which refers to a corresponding audio file.
In the shadow of the big cheat scandal for the suits of the Norwegian ski jumper, the Ottesen affair causes additional unrest at the home World Cup, there are even claims for withdrawal from the Norwegian team.
Angry reactions of the Norwegian athletes
“I think it’s time that Lasse will soon be looking for a new job,” said Espen Björnstad, who competes in the Nordic combination, in an interview with the newspaper Verdens Gang .
Colleague Simen Tiller also said indignantly: “It is shocking enough that someone can say something like this at all. But the further up someone is in a hierarchy, the worse it is. That goes without saying. You don’t say something like that. “
Ottesen is kept against the allegations – according to his information, his statements were falsified: “What I said was that the media would” kill them ‘when the information I got to the public. ” Fantasies of violence would be far from him: “Of course I don’t want to kill anyone.”
Hanne Waaler Lier, editor -in -chief of Aftenposten, contradicted this: “I cannot understand this presentation. The context in which the words were spoken is very clearly described in our article, and Ottesen gave twice the opportunity to answer questions and clarify the context, but he didn’t want to answer. “
The World Association FIS has not yet wanted to comment on the topic.