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The two Norwegian athletes protagonists of a great battle at a distance about the value of private teams in cross-country skiing, with Aukland, with his brother in charge of the team Centric, riding on the controversy.
Thursday 18 September 2014 3 minutes reading time
In a recent interview Marit Bjoergen had expressed serious doubts about the real utility & agrave; private teams at the bottom, saying that for most of them it was just a business from banks and various private sponsors, which deprive the national teams of good athletes as well as altering the basic elements of a team.
Bjoergen reminded that it is necessary to have more athletes & ugrave; big as a model, which help athletes pi & ugrave; young people since I was in junior teams, and for the collection of funds for the & rsquo; technical aspect. The Norwegian has in fact said that the results obtained, without a team around her would not have come.
All hell broke loose, Jorgen Aukland team Centric is & egrave; felt stung by responding harshly to Bjoergen and stating that she & egrave; was a privileged at the outset of his career, and that athletes with less fortunate or she has every right to go and look for other ways to stand out and become a professional cross-country skiers.
Aukland also added that being Bjoergen always been in the national team has not the slightest idea of ​​how to stay in a private team, which has the same core values ​​and training of a national team, and that not having experience in this regard would be better not to talk about it.
Bjoergen wanted to respond again, saying that Auckland has misrepresented his words, since the Norwegian champion was referring to & rsquo, have had on the team before her phenomena as Bjorn Daehlie, Bente Skari, Thomas Alsgaard, and that without them the federation would not have invested so & igrave; a lot of money in the fund. Therefore & egrave; almost a moral duty, in anticipation of the future, that the great champions remain in the national team the pi & ugrave; long as possible.
The Norwegian threw water on the fire, will Aukland & agrave; satisfied or'll want & agrave; have l & rsquo; last word?
#BJOERGEN #AUKLAND
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