The Swedish Climbing Federation's sports director Patrik Blom thinks that the missed award ceremony received too many penalties.
"Of course we respect the rules, they are the same for everyone, but it is incomparable and deeply unfair that an athlete should lose the overall victory in a World Cup due to a trifle like this.
This is based from the beginning on poor communication from the ISMF (International Ski Alpine Federation) and the organizer's side where the athlete has to pay an unreasonably high price for something that has nothing to do with the competition itself ", he says on the association's website and adds:
"We have contacted the ISMF president and are also considering taking this to Cas, the sports arbitration tribunal."
Tove Alexandersson is above all known as the world's best orienteer on the women's side, but also competes in ski orienteering and ski alpinism, a kind of touring.
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Tove Alexandersson, archive photo.
Photo: Bildbyrån