What Do We Know About Fluoro Ban. And What We Don’t

What Do We Know About Fluoro Ban. And What We Don’t

Gear News, Newsfeed
It's shaping up to be an interesting season - for all the right reasons as well as wrong ones. The World Cup calendar 2020/ 21 is still very much up in the air and is not expected to be finalized till September or even October. That's outside the FIS or the stage organizers' control for the most part, given persistent info/ rumors about impeding "second wave of COVID" and all the associated restrictions on travel/ gatherings. But the rather sudden yet resolute ban on high-fluoro in the international competitions is definitely man-made issue. Here's how things are shaping up as of early July: - Contrary to previous info, the FIS appears to be pushing for the hard scenario of ban for HF use already in 2020 I.e. without transitional season…
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More On Fluoro Ban

More On Fluoro Ban

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
Pierre Mignerey, the race director of cross-country skiing at the International Ski Federation since 2012, in interview with Ski Chrono/ Le Dauphine "The next year an environmental standard goes into effect that will ban production, distribution and importation of fluorine wax in the European Union.... The problem is that we have no way to control the teams for the moment. " Quite a thing to say, coming from one of the top bosses of international cross country skiing - and quite an issue overall. So, we decided to publish more relevant excerpts from our recent conversation with one of the key people pushing non-fluoro revolution in xcskiing. Say hello again to Joel Svedlund, project manager with Peak Innovation and one of the organizers of The POPFREE Ski Goes Global project…
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