Fitness athletes, such as skiers and long-distance runners, often go to camps at high altitude resorts to prepare for seasons and competitions - as high altitude causes the body to produce more red blood cells that carry oxygen.

But to be able to access that effect at home, there are also many who stay in so-called high-altitude houses or high-altitude tents, where the air becomes as oxygen-poor as it is at high altitude.

Ingebrigtsen's critical

But this has long been banned by the Norwegian Sports Confederation, which believes that it goes against the ethics and morals that one wants to stand for in Norway.

The ban has caused great criticism, especially from athletics Norway.

Gjert Ingelbrigtsen, father and coach of the middle-distance stars Jakob, Henrik and Filip, is a person who has been loud in his protests against the ban.

- It is as far from cheating as you can get, he says to SVT, and explains that he believes that the ban increases the injustices:

- I think it is stupid and strange that we in Norway should have different rules than basically the rest of the world.

What would have happened if we in Norway were to allow fluoride while the rest of the world would ban it?

The Swedish Sports Confederation supports athletes

And now it may be that his wish for the abolition of the high-altitude ban is fulfilled.

The board of the Norwegian Sports Confederation has announced that they support a proposal from the Norwegian Athletics Federation to lift the ban.

Decisions must be made at the Norwegian Sports Council, where representatives from Norway's various sports federations and districts are represented.

- Using simulated height is not defined as doping and not on Wada's doping list and we believe that we should have the same regulations as international competitors and that the time is ripe to lift the ban in Norway, says the Norwegian Sports Confederation's vice president Vibecke Sörensen to SVT.

But what is the difference now compared to before, when it was decided to keep the ban?

- That's right.

And it has been a goal, as the Sports Council decided for 2015, to work for an international ban.

We have passed it on to WADA (International Doping Agency) and the IOC (International Olympic Committee), but it has not gone anywhere.

But during the pandemic, with limited travel opportunities, we have gained other perspectives.

- Some of our practitioners feel that it has worse opportunities than others.

So in order to listen to them and help ensure that everyone has the same rules and regulations, our board has put forward a proposal to repeal it.

Cross-country Ski Committee against repeal

But the question is whether the proposal to repeal the rule will be passed.

As recently as Friday, the Norwegian Ski Association's length committee announced that they urge the ski association to vote to maintain the ban.

- We do this because we have a responsibility that goes far beyond elite sports.

We see that what is done at the elite level is increasingly being copied at a lower level and by younger people.

It is about the signal value, says the cross-country ski committee Torbjörn Skogstad to the newspaper Dagbladet.

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