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Yesterday afternoon, at the end of the competitions of Nove Mesto, Raphael Poirée wrote a post on Facebook in which he frontally attacked the Norwegian system for the training of young biathletes.
Monday 19 December 2016 5 minutes reading time
The forty-trans, great rival Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and retired in 2007, is now Norwegian of 'adoption. He lives in fact among the fjords for more than a decade since he married his colleague Liv Grete Skjelbreid, with whom he has three children and divorced in 2013.
No coincidence that the thoughts of the four-time winner of the World Cup were expressed in bokmål language and not in French.
"Biathlete Martin Fourcade is the perfect! Stable, aggressive and very strong mentally at the range, with a ski fast and efficient. Smart and tactical when you need it. For him, every victory is a great achievement and is a sight to see.
What do they do instead Norwegians? errors errors, mistakes and even at best lacking the 'latest target all together. They have good coaches, good ski man, good physical therapists, coaches good shooting and the highest budget of all. You can not see these performances so bad!
Maybe it's time to change the culture and philosophy in the construction of the shot, starting from beginning of his career. We have to start with air rifle, to work step by step on accuracy. We can not just focus more on the bottom, other nations have worked very well in recent years. Norway is not the strongest. All this is really frustrating to see! "
Dall''emittente reached NRK, Poirée in detail developed his thought: "In my time it was enough to shoot well, or skiing very quickly. Even with one or two mistakes you could come back and win. The Norwegians had always the best times in the bottom and shooting, without being exceptional, were precise enough to be successful. That does not exist anymore and biathlon in Norway c''è culture not enough on the shot to build a modern biathlete.
The kids should start training with air rifles from 12-13 years. There have to work on their accuracy. You only workout after workout, hour after hour, you can learn the concepts of precision, stability and applied to the shooting breathing. 22 caliber rifles should only be challenged from 16 years onwards.
I think you have to first build a shooter, then you should put on the narrow skis. Here in Norway instead of the 'idea is exactly the' opposite. Give 22 gauge in the hands of children of 9 or 10 years and urge them now to shoot very quickly, inculcating the 'idea that the shot is secondary to the cross-country skiing ".
In reality, the debate about the philosophy adopted in Norway is open for several months. The same technical French Shooting Siegfried Mazet, torn by the Norwegians just Martin Fourcade in spring, during the 'summer had expressed very similar concepts to those of Poirée.
Certainly c''è that the Scandinavian country has collected four podiums in the first seven races, not even win one. To find a start of the season so negative you have to go back to back in 1993 - '' 94.
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