Skating coach Jillert Anema did a great job at the international skating association ISU. In a radio broadcast by Omrop Fryslân, he was completely exhausted in one minute about the organization of skating competitions in all corners of the world. “They are jerks.”
“Skating is undermined by competitions where there is no head in the stands”, Anema grumbles about the locations where in his eyes there is hardly any interest in the sport. “We are sometimes on the road for more than 24 hours to get to some sort of rock city. And then you still have to go from the hotel to the ice rink.”
“And it is determined by people who themselves can sit on the second-highest floor of a large apartment building, in a hotel where the highest floor is a striptease club. They like that,” he adds.
KNSB: “Inappropriate words”
A little too much, say the ISU and the Dutch skating association KNSB. In a joint statement, the unions write: “We think his words about the hotel selection of officials are inappropriate. Regarding his criticism of the ISU World Cups: the KNSB has been constructively discussing further development of the World Cup with ISU for some time. format. “
Anema has little faith in that. “The silliness is limitless.”
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