Bizarni zapleti na Švedski kolesarski zvezi

Čeravno (pre)mnogokrat, kot zgled organiziranosti in efektivnosti navajamo skandinavske države, očitno tudi tam ni vedno vse rožnato. V zadnjem tednu je kokolesarsko javnost namreč šokirala novica, da na prihajajočem svetovnem prvenstvu v gorskem kolesarstvu v avstralskem Cairinsu ne bo nastopila aktualna olimpijska prvakinja v krosu, švedinja Jenny Rissveds. Vse skupaj verjetno niti ne bi dvigalo prahu, če ne bi bil razlog za to naravnost bizarna poteza Švedske kolesarske zveze. Slednja je namreč mimo vseh svojih tekmovalcev podpisala pogodobo s švedskim proizvajalcem zaščitne opreme Poc.

Pri tem seveda ne gre za nič neobičajnega, saj morajo športniki pod nacionalnim grbom na svetovnih in evropskih prvenstvih ter olimpijskih igrati po pravilih nastopati v enotnih dresih, ki jih običajno zagotavlja en proizvajalec s katerim ima panožna zveza podpisano pogodbo. Drugače je pri zaščitni opremi, kolesih in komponentah, ki so standardni del repertoarja posameznega športnika in kot taki tudi del njegovih sponzorskih pogodb. Pri Švedski kolesarski zvezi so šli tokrat korak dlje in v pogodbi s Pocom pristali na njihove zahteve, da morajo švedski tekmovalci na prvenstvu nositi tudi njihove čelade in očala. 

Jenny Rissveds ima kot prepoznaven obraz gorskokolesarske karavane seveda podpisano pogodbo s svojimi sponzorji (Scott - kolo in čelada, Oakley - očala). Ker gre za konkurenčna podjetja, so se v taboru švedinje nastop odločili odpovedati. Za to je po besedah vodje ekipe, Thomasa Frischknechta, odgovorna in kriva izključno nacionalna kolesarska zveza.

 

Hello, it's me. Messy times at the moment, no, actually not just at the moment. This has been an ongoing thing since February last year when my name got sold and contracts were unluckily signed above my head. I don 't wanna hang out anybody or throw shit on anybody, that 's not who I am. I'm the last one in this war who should excuse myself or apologize, but however I wanna apologize in advance to you who actually are innocent, but will get in trouble because of politics, people who are weak and people who are too proud to swallow their pride. Please, I beg you all out there to not throw shit at POC, UCI or anyone else who actually TRIED to solve the problem and who TRIED to help myself, my team and my Swedish riding colleagues out of this. It's not about which products are the esthetically nicest, it's not about my team making money out of this, it's not about the Swedish cycling federation in general and it's not about me. This is about so much more. Either way we are all gonna lose in the end of this story, but it's fair to say I'm the one who lost the most the last one and a half year. I feel sad, I feel used and if it wouldn 't be for the people around me, who 's fighting day and night for my rights, I would have been deeply worried about my future. Either you take your part, you stay natural and watch it from the outside or you don 't give a shit about this whole mess. But what 's the most important for me to know is that all the people who brought me all the way here will bring me even further and I know that they will always keep my back, no matter what. I'm sure the each of you who had the time to read all the way down here also know who 's having my back and who 's not having my back in this conflict. Peace. @scottmtbracing @bikeonscott @oakleybike @uci_cycling @pocsports @swecycling

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Kako se bo zadeva razpletla še ni znano, so se pa z razumevajočim in pozitivnim zapisom odzvali pri Pocu, kjer trdijo, da bodo brez oklevanja razmislili o vseh možnostih, ki bi Jenny in ostalim tekmovalcem z navzkrižnimi pogodbami omogočili nastop na svetovnem prvenstvu.