Lars Kvaalen and Øystein Grødum will go to the European Championships in Heerenveen next week. Today the skate-off between Lars and Henrik took place over the 1500m and 5000m. Henrik had to beat Lars with 0.8 points (8 seconds on the 5000m) to qualify for Heerenveen. Henrik fell on the 1500m while Lars skated a time of 1.53.4. On the 5000m finished Henrik in 6.42.7. Lars was 7 seconds slower and finished in 6.49.98. The NSF decided to give Lars the 4th spot for the ECH.
The 3th spot was already given to Grødum when Solli said he wouldn't start in the skate-off. He still did skate a 5000m and finished in 6.42.3
So now will 2 skaters who were beaten by Tore Solli at the NCH Allround go to Heerenveen.... and he is even passed by Christiansen also because he is selected as first substitute...
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3th place for Tore Solli
9-11 january 2009
Tore Solli, 3th at the Norwegian Championships Allround, should have been selected for the European Championships immediately. But he has to skate a skate-off first...
NCH Allround 2009
3th place for Tore Solli
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***Updates***
03-01
*New article about how Tore thinks about it all now and the rest of the season in Norwegian and Dutch
02-01
*story about the selection and skate-off published on the Dutch speedskatingnews website ''schaatsenzo''
01-01
*New article from Sandefjords Blad about the skate-off published on this site, also translated in Dutch
*Dutch translation of both letters published
*Open letter of Sandefjord Skøiteklubb to Vibecke Sørensen, president of NSF and the answer of Vibecke Sørensen published on this site
31-12
*link of this site mailed to Øystein Haugen, Vibecke Sørensen and other members of the board of the Norwegian Skating Union
29-12
*link placed on yahoo skatingforum
*''The Norwegian Championships Allround and why Tore should go to Heerenveen'' added
28-12
*link to site published on 2 Dutch skating forums
27-12
*link to site published on 3 Norwegian skating(discussion)sites.
26-12
*Hvem er Tore Solli - Denne sesongen
*what the president of the Norwegian Skating union has to say about the ECH selection (Norwegian & Dutch)
*New article about how Tore thinks about it all now and the rest of the season in Norwegian and Dutch
02-01
*story about the selection and skate-off published on the Dutch speedskatingnews website ''schaatsenzo''
01-01
*New article from Sandefjords Blad about the skate-off published on this site, also translated in Dutch
*Dutch translation of both letters published
*Open letter of Sandefjord Skøiteklubb to Vibecke Sørensen, president of NSF and the answer of Vibecke Sørensen published on this site
31-12
*link of this site mailed to Øystein Haugen, Vibecke Sørensen and other members of the board of the Norwegian Skating Union
29-12
*link placed on yahoo skatingforum
*''The Norwegian Championships Allround and why Tore should go to Heerenveen'' added
28-12
*link to site published on 2 Dutch skating forums
27-12
*link to site published on 3 Norwegian skating(discussion)sites.
26-12
*Hvem er Tore Solli - Denne sesongen
*what the president of the Norwegian Skating union has to say about the ECH selection (Norwegian & Dutch)
Why this website
We are 4 speedskatingfans from Holland and cheer especially for all the Norwegian skaters. So this year we also cheered for Tore during his Worldcupdebut in Berlin and a week later in Heerenveen and saw 2 great races! After the races we spoke a little with Tore and got to know him as a very friendly and nice person.
The National Allroundchampionships were followed by us via Internet with great interest. It was really exciting and in the end we were very happy for Tore that he reached the 3th place and qualification for the ECH (we thought). But in Norway you are never sure till the official selection is published so we waited for that. And to our 'great' suprise we saw that Tore wasn't selected immediately but that he had to skate a skate-off...against Øystein Grødum, 6th at the NCH... Really ridiculous and absurd!!!!
As said is this is by far not the first time that the Norwegian skating union makes unfair and controversial selections and decisions. We are really done with it and won't just let it happen without doing anything. Unfortunately there isn't much that we can do but, with making this website we want at least show our anger about this absurd decision and at the same time support Tore!
We want to make this site known by as much people as possible and hope that a lot of people will give their opinion here! And in this way show the Norwegian Skating Union how absurd their selectionpolicy is!!!
To make it clear, this isn't an action/website against Øystein Grødum. He is absolutely a great skater and a great person! It's only a protest against the absurd decision of the Norwegian Skating Union!
The National Allroundchampionships were followed by us via Internet with great interest. It was really exciting and in the end we were very happy for Tore that he reached the 3th place and qualification for the ECH (we thought). But in Norway you are never sure till the official selection is published so we waited for that. And to our 'great' suprise we saw that Tore wasn't selected immediately but that he had to skate a skate-off...against Øystein Grødum, 6th at the NCH... Really ridiculous and absurd!!!!
As said is this is by far not the first time that the Norwegian skating union makes unfair and controversial selections and decisions. We are really done with it and won't just let it happen without doing anything. Unfortunately there isn't much that we can do but, with making this website we want at least show our anger about this absurd decision and at the same time support Tore!
We want to make this site known by as much people as possible and hope that a lot of people will give their opinion here! And in this way show the Norwegian Skating Union how absurd their selectionpolicy is!!!
To make it clear, this isn't an action/website against Øystein Grødum. He is absolutely a great skater and a great person! It's only a protest against the absurd decision of the Norwegian Skating Union!
ECH Allround @ Thialf, Heerenveen!
9-11 january 2009
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