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In July Emil Hegle Svendsen will be 32 years old. In the past, he was the only one capable of competing with equal weapons with Martin Fourcade for a whole winter but his last victory was in December 2014. However, the Norwegian is in charge of the old venture, as explained at the site Specialized langrenn.com.
Friday 5 May 2017 3 minutes reading time
"In adversity, I've always found the strongest motivations, and I think it's a good thing to get out of an unusual season just before the Olympic Games. I think that next year I'll be fine."
Trondheim's veteran does not get out of the way from 2016 - '17, testifies to having collected 6 podiums. However, success has always been missed and above all the World Cups have been a flop. Svendsen, however, is not worried.
"Because last year between the summer and the fall I lost 2 months of preparation due to two distinct maladies, so there has never been continuity in training. I'm sure these stop Have affected my performance.
During this off-season I will try to avoid the long pauses, if I succeed then we will be able to fight back with the best in the world.
I think it was important to change the brand of skiing already last season, so I had a year to adapt and do a lot of work that I will not have to do in the coming weeks.
In so many people I wonder if I will make changes in preparation for the Olympic era. I will only make small adjustments, also because I have more experience and so I know how to handle it. By the truth, perhaps, instead of talking about '' new '', you should look at the '' used '' safe, '' it seems to have been fruitful in the past. ''
The reference is to the Olympic results of the past. For Svendsen, those in Pyeongchang will be the fourth Olympic Career Games. Excluding Torino, where a junior was brought to experience, both in Vancouver and Sochi the results were satisfactory.
In fact, both Canada and Russia have come home with 2 gold, one individual (20 km in 2010, mass start in 2014) and one in teams (single-seater 2010 and mixed team 2014).
He would have to embrace it individually even in Korea, Emil would enter history. No one, in fact, managed to win a personal gold in three consecutive editions of the Games.
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