The Norwegian star accuses the coach: "Foolishness"

This summer, sprint star Kristine Stavås broke Skistad with her personal trainer.

At the same time, Skistad reported him to the Norwegian Skiing Association's ethics committee for abuse of power and manipulation.

Now the cross-country star talks about what she has been exposed to.

- It was about power and sexual harassment, she tells TV2 and continues:

- He commented on my appearance. He also wanted us to spend more time together in private, as he thought it would improve our relationship.

The ethics committee considered that the physical contact was clearly reprehensible. The case then went on to the association's law and prosecution committee, which chose to drop it.

The coach writes in an email to TV2 that the matter has been dealt with "thoroughly in two instances" within the skiing association (the ethics committee and the association's law and prosecution committee).

"Throughout the process, I have presented my version of reality. The bodies that have reviewed the case have, after gathering the experiences of both parties, made their well-founded decisions. The case is therefore closed for my part, and I have put it behind me."

Stavås Skistad tells of a personal experience of losing oneself. The trainer had several roles in her life for many years, and she tells TV2 that she did not understand how unhealthy the relationship had become.

- In retrospect, I have realized that much of what I called respect was actually fear.

TV2 has been in contact with people around Stavås Skistad, where some confirm that they experienced an abnormal physical closeness between coaches and athletes, while others the channel spoke to did not see anything out of the ordinary.

The skiing star, with among other things a World Cup silver in the sprint, first reported the coach to her childhood club Konnerud, but says that it rather wanted to hush up everything and the reason why she broke up with the coach. She feels betrayed, she says.

Konnerud replies to the channel that they do not recognize themselves at all in the skiing star's description of what happened. Stavås Skistad chose to change clubs in September.

About the association's law and prosecution committee choosing to drop the case, Stavås Skistad tells TV2:

- I question the real value of sports' ethical rules and guidelines when such a serious report does not lead to any consequences. How can you expect others to come forward when there are no consequences?