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In un''intervista to the Norwegian newspaper Adressa Emil Hegle Svendsen has announced a radical change in preparation for the next two seasons. In particular, the twenty nine year old Norwegian said goodbye to altitude training.
Tuesday 23 September 2014 2 minutes reading time
"Last year, everything was designed to prepare for the Olympic Games in Sochi, which meant carry out high altitude training sessions from August to October. These training camp I have ever dealt with professionalism & agrave ;, even though I never liked them.
The next two World Cups will be Kontiolahti and Holmenkollen, and will be held in resort & agrave; pi & ugrave; or less above sea level, an altitude that is perfectly suited to my body.
In & share egrave; impossible to train intensively, & also egrave; need to devote considerable time to the process of acclimatization. In practice, in order to make a stage production than 2 weeks you should take almost a month.
In October just around the corner potr & ograve; load in a pi & ugrave; intense than last year and this should allow me to be in better shape for the 'beginning of the season. "
Svendsen, however, justified the opaque results of the national championships (where & egrave; came third twice, but doing a lot of effort on roller skis) just with the fact that they have increased workloads during the 'summer than usual.
In other words, the twenty-nine of Trondheim has admitted that he radically changed his preparation for dell''inverno. Sar & agrave; the winning move to be able to regain the World Cup, won "only" once despite his pure talent?
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