FIS is promoting Raw Air with jubilant jumpers from Russia. We have a comment from the tournament organizer

FIFA FIFA And UEFA have already decided to suspend the Russian national teams. However, the International Skating Union is still unable to decide on this step. And this is despite numerous calls from the national unions.

A provocative spot promoting Raw Air. Did the FIS go crazy?

Polish Ski AssociationWho will organize the Junior World Championships this week in Zakopane, does not want to participate Russians. For several days, he has been speaking with the World Alert Federation on this matter, set on Monday polishing Minister sports Camille Bortnikzuk , Which he reported in an interview with the portal sport.onet.plThat Poland will not organize the ski jumping competition and the combined northern competition at the beginning of the Junior World Championships in Zakopane, if Russian athletes participate in it.

The Norwegians are also pressing for Vladimir Putin’s nationals to be excluded from the upcoming Raw Air ski jumping, cross-country and mixed World Cup competitions. The situation is that the Ukrainian players have stayed at home to defend their country, and whoever attacks them will compete quietly in Norway. Leaves FIS It’s not bleak that sport isn’t politics, Halvor Aigner Granrod, winner of Sunday’s World Cup jumping competition, wrote on social media.

So far, there is no official announcement from the FIS, but we will not see any Russians in Norway. – raw air without Russia. Delivered by local staff – reported by Jakub Balciersky from Sport.pl. On Monday evening, the International Skating Union published a website to promote the upcoming edition of RAW AIR on its official Twitter account. Ready for the next release of Raw Air? – Request in the publication.

There wouldn’t be anything surprising in the promo video if it wasn’t for it Work crew With Russian jumpers. Fans were outraged by the activists’ provocation. “They really have no shame”, “what a bottom”, “they must be messing about that they literally showed two team presentations, one of which is Russia with Klimov in front” – these are just some of the comments that appeared after the post clip.

What do the organizers say about the great promotional idea of ​​the FIS? “It has nothing to do with me, but it shouldn’t be like that for me.” We must all unite in support of our Ukrainian friends in their fight against the Russian war machine – comment on Sport.pl Clas Brede Braathen, Norwegian Ski Players Manager.

This year’s Raw Air will take off on March 2 and finish four days later. The competition will be held only on ski jumps in Lillehammer and Oslo, because Trondheim is undergoing a major rebuilding of the facilities in connection with the World Championships in 2025, and the World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Vikersund.