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Moment of changes in Swiss House with regard to the cross-country teams, both from the athletes on the technical side.
Tuesday 29 April 2014 2 minutes reading time
From the technical point of view there is the decision by the Swiss federation not to renew the contract at Tor Arne Hetland for next season. The Norwegian, technical manager of the teams sprint for the Swiss national team from 2010/11 season, it is was officially thanked by Hippolyt Kempf, who also said that in anticipation of future Olympic cycle, you want to give a new impetus by making modifications to the'' internal staff.
Among the athletes instead there are two retreats, two specialists of the sprint, or Bettina Gruber and Christoph Eigenmann. The first ended with a flourish, winning the national title recently sprint and considering its participation in the Olympic Games in Sochi'' as the apotheosis of his career.
As for the 34 year old Eigenmann, who got his best performance with a win in the sprint World Cup held in Monaco in the 2005/06 season, the career is was far more long, and for him, in contrast to the Gruber, c'' is yet the future of the sport'' s interior. In fact, the Swiss would like to become a coach, from the sporting group of border guards, which he sportingly represented in the past 15 years.
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