As the reason that he ends up stating Vidar Löfshus that he does not feel the same motivation for the job as in the past.
Löfshus has worked at the Norwegian ski federation page 2006, 1 may 2011 he was landslagschef. But after this season he has decided to do something else.
– It is very much about that you need to have toppmotivation if you are going to have this job. You must feel the inspiration every day you go to work. It’s about 24 hours a day seven days a week. I have tried to live after the 13 years I’ve been here. Now I feel that it is time to do something else, he writes on the Norwegian skidlandslagets Instagramkonto.
Löfshus has not yet decided what he wants to do in the future.
from the Finnish former toppåkaren Aino-Kaisa Saarinen.
” I do not understand how he could have left his job in the Norwegian league, she said to Ilta-Sanomat.
Saarinen was one of the sharpest critics when the Norwegian cross-country skiing 2016 was hit by two dopningsfall shortly after each other. Martin Johnsrud Sundby was suspended for two months for using their asthma medication in the wrong way. Shortly thereafter came the news of the positive dopningsprovet of Therese Johaug, after she used a läppsalva with the anabolic steroid clostebol.
In a column of the Ilta-Sanomat wrote Saarinen about the hatred she encountered after she criticised Norway after the dopningsfallen.
”In social media, I received messages from the norwegians where the content is mostly either hot or utskällningar … and one of the Norwegian servicemännen came up and asked me why I hate norwegians,” wrote Saarinen.
also confronted by Vidar Löfshus, via telephone during a camp in Italian Toblach.
– He asked if I did not understand that it was a permitted substance, and that everything was just a misunderstanding. But I merely replied that this is not true. I understand that the substance is permissible but when it is many times higher than the limit it is no longer to follow the rules. I demanded of the Vidar to ensure that it would never happen again, ” says 40-year-old to the Finnish newspaper.
Vidar Löfshus says nothing about him leaving his post because of the criticism, but Saarinen is not the only one who after dopningsfallen and regarding Norwegian skier’s use of asthma drugs even to healthy skaters, have been critical towards the Norwegian landslagschefen.