Cross country skiing - Great Britain
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The British Ski Association has formalized the composition of its national cross-country skiing teams for the 2017-'18 season. After the medal just touched by Musgrave in Lahti there is a great expectation in getting Pyeongchang a result for a still "small" nation of winter sports.
Friday 12 May 2017 7 minutes reading time
In a country that has chosen Brexit and to isolate itself from Europe at political and social level, it is opposed by the Franco-European expansionist choices made by the British Ski Association that year by year are increasingly marrying the philosophy of acquiring indigenous technicians to increase Their presence in the positions that count in winter disciplines.
Although there are only 14 ski clubs (over 10 of 6/10 years ago) distributed over the land of overman, and the popularity is not even a tenth comparable to that of rugby, Celtic football players or Rangers and even tennis player Andy Murray, Andrew Musgrave's recent great performances in the world have greatly attracted the media and public attention to cross-country skiing in Scotland mainly.
To comfort this growth, the Federation will soon begin an introduction to cross country skiing and roller skating in primary schools at various British institutes with the aim of increasing the number of practitioners across the UK despite the fact that the snow It is present with continuity only for about 2 weeks per year.
With this challenging long-term project, which is born in schools, continues with the club's activities, then it goes on with the entry into national and elite cadres to move to Norway friend to become true professional skiers and Follow the footsteps of Andrew Musgrave, the British Ski Association is set to be one of the top 5 nations in snow disciplines by 2030.
The 4th place from Muzzy in the 50km skating in Lahti 2017, Andrew Young's 3rd place in the Dobbiaco sprint in the previous season are just the tip of the iceberg, plus other remarkable results from the native duo of Huntly, A movement that from Lillehammer 1994 to Vancouver 2010 had not been able to sign any decent athletes at the Olympics.
With the Sochi Olympics, the team is still advancing in the presentation of the Team GB in view of the Korean Olympics, the British set a minimum target of top 10, albeit in a low voice a medalist thought for Musgrave They deny it of course.
Olympic medal that would be historic and sensational for a "small" movement like Anglo-Saxon.
We referred to the European winter sports discipline intensified this spring with the recent announcements of the Austrian Fernsebner in the Alpine and Swiss Nantermod in the snowboard-cross as captains in the coming seasons.
While cross-country skiing, the Norwegian acquisitions by the British Federation are those of Hans Kristian Stadheim for the distance racing field and Jostein Vinjerui who will handle sprints.
If Stadheim is going to be a whole newcomer to work with the Scottish boys, Vinjerui has already had some notions on the matter, having previously collaborated with Andrew Young in that of Lillehammer.
In the first resume, the years as a trainer in Team Leaseplan Tigers in the Visma ski classic circuit and the experience of being under 23 Norge coach.
These are the words of Stadheim during the presentation of the British team: "This is an interesting opportunity for me to work with a small nation who has the talent and the ability to win medals at the Olympic and World level. I want to help Britain to be an internationally recognized nation on cross-country skiing and not just to PyeongChang but also with a look towards the future of the Olympic Games of 2022. I look forward to starting this journey and contributing to Development of our fundraisers. "
Great aspirations also nourish the other Norge sprinter Vinjerui's engineer, happy to be able to work and further enhance Andrew Musgrave's talent. : "I have great expectations for our" small "cross country team. I know that all of our athletes are very serious and they have great passion for the bottom. I am very happy to work with the two Andrew who are already ' Top level with medal opportunities for the 2018 Olympics. "
Here is the national roster that defends the Union Jack flag:
National team:
 Andrew Musgrave (1990)
 Andrew Young (1992)
 Callum Smith (1992)
 Annika Taylor (1993)
Performance Senior & Junior Team:
 James Clugnet (1996)
 Fern Cates (1995)
 Sam Cairns (1995)
 Duncan Gibb (1997)
 Lynne Gray (1998)
 Jack Nicholls
 Oliver Newman (1999)
 Fergus Newman (1999)
 Brodie Murray (1999)
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