The National Sports Commission is currently awaiting supplementary information from the Swedish Figure Skating Association and only after that will a decision be made as to whether the case should be handled further or not.
"The appeal was made in the parts that went against it, first and foremost because my principal did not commit any punishable offense, but also because the ethics and disciplinary committee's trial and decision is in direct conflict with the statutes of the Swedish Sports Federation," writes the lawyer of the coach concerned in an email to DN.
The mail continues:
"The decision means that my principal - against his objection, without support in evidence and on grounds not relied on by the notifier - was fined for unspecified acts."
"This has not been a decision that rested on a good legal application."
It was at the beginning of March that the Swedish Figure Skating Association's Ethics and Discipline Board dropped the trainer belonging to Solna Figure Skating. Several national team-riders have criticized the coach's training methods, including a 15-year JVM rider.
But since the coach has been suspended from the club since October, when the investigation began, the union chose not to impose any further punishment.
- For me, it was important that the coach fell for what they exposed me to. I wanted to be able to drop this and move on. But now that the coach has appealed, it opens up so that all the riders who want to testify about what they have been exposed to can be heard by RIN, that's good. The coach can also be given a punitive penalty and the association can be reviewed again, says JVM rider Selma Ihr, who was one of the riders who accused the coach.