The idea was that the national ski team would be allowed to try out the new test equipment next week, but it was postponed until October.

The new technology needed to be "fine-tuned" for the fluoride ban to work perfectly in the coming season.

The fact that the International Ski Federation (Fis) is out so late makes the Finnish Federation advocate a postponement of the ban.

- At the moment, it will be unsustainable if you consider all stakeholders in the ski world.

One must take into account that there is other than national teams and to have two different lines, which it can easily be when Fis is late in its schedule, we believe is unsustainable.

Right now we are very close at hand that we do not have time to enter the national arena, says election manager Martin Norrgård.

"It's going to be a soup"

Fis has previously said that the national unions could buy their own test machines, but they have not seen any of that yet.

- At that time, we still thought that it would be possible to implement a total fluoride ban also at the largest competitions at national level.

Now we see in front of us that our national team skiers can possibly ride with fluoride at a national competition and without fluoride at an international competition and it will be a soup.

Swedish election manager Petter Myhlback continues to believe that Fis will resolve the situation in time.

- It is starting to run out of time, but the International Ski Federation has said that they will solve this.

We choose to continue to have faith in them.

But it's all about time, it can not be okay to bring test equipment with two weeks left until the World Cup premiere, he says to SVT Sport.

"Can not jeopardize legal certainty"

Finland's Norrgård is worried that a late introduction could lead to shortcomings in control and this in turn could hit the drivers.

- We want to follow Fi's line and it's not about opposing it.

It's about getting this done so that it's done right.

We can not jeopardize the legal security of the riders.

Who is responsible if a ski is contaminated with old fluoride ?, he says.