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Vitriolic words of Justyna Kowalczyk, annoyed by the overwhelming power sported by the Norwegians in the first races of this season. The numbers are impressive.
Wednesday 10 December 2014 6 minutes reading time
These are the words of Kowalczyk, reported by French site ski nordique: & ldquo; The superiority & agrave; Norse is not the good of the sport. I am desperate to see such a domain, even if they are the first to admire the many resources, both financial and sports, this team. They are the best in all areas, in training, in medicine, in & rsquo; organization of work and in sports culture, and about & egrave; also the sponsors who invest large sums of money. However, the results are killing this discipline: no one can & ograve; compete with them, perhaps only Sweden, which for & ograve; is focusing on the global home of Falun. Even Germany, Finland and Russia can not approach the levels of Norway & rdquo ;.
The Polish cross-country skier only able to counter the monopoly of the vassals of King Harald in the last five years, & egrave; fresh from a stinging defeat in the test multistage Lillehammer, closed in tenth place and in which there & egrave; failed to curb the Norwegians even in what & egrave; his specialty & agrave ;, the 10 km pursuit in alternating. & Ldquo; I was the enemy ideal for Norway, but they are not ugrave & pi; & rdquo ;, concluded Kowalczyk.
Ready the answer of the head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing & Aring; ge Skinstad: & ldquo; Our domain will not last & agrave ;, we are only at the beginning of the season and the others will wake up. Do I have to & ograve; recognize that we are reaping the fruits of hard work began a few years ago & rdquo ;.
Yet the thought of Kowalczyk & egrave; shared by other experts, including the journalist NRK Torgeir Bj & ouml; rn: & ldquo; In 2009 and 2010 only Northug was competitive in races away, not today & egrave; in the form there are five other distance runners capable of winning. The work has paid off, but this excessive power becomes scary for the rest of the world. We should not ask the Norwegians to slow down or stop in the preparation, must be the other teams to work harder & ugrave ;, but the challenge & egrave; prohibitive: in addition to Sundby there are Krogh, T & oslash; nseth and Golberg who are very strong & rdquo;
Even l & rsquo; former distance runner Sindre Wiig Nordby, now team manager, & egrave; aware of this situation: & ldquo; If we continue to dominate in this way, no one interesser & agrave; pi & ugrave; cross-country skiing. Better go see a good movie that is not a sport where there are 6-7 Norwegians in the win every weekend. For example, in Norway we do not look more & ugrave; 10,000 meters speed skating & agrave; because & eacute; we already know & agrave; we will have a podium Dutch; would have the same dramatic situation in cross-country skiing. We need the growth of the other teams & rdquo ;.
The numbers are actually scary: so far, in 12 races sailed first level, Norway has won 11, occupying 29 of the 36 available places on the podium with 13 different cross-country skiers. Only Iivo Niskanen in 15km of Ruka & egrave; managed to take away the joy of victory to the Scandinavian nation. Eloquent test results multistage Lillehammer: among women in the first seven positions were placed 6 Norwegians, among men were even occupied the first five places. We will see in Davos some other nation to break this monopoly?
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