The Norwegian coach has lifted Finnish biathlon “out of the mud”, and the sensational results in Östersund last week showed just how far the team has come. But with his success, Norway now wants him back.
40-hour training weeks and an unusually high number of hard sessions. The 24-year-old’s method is producing both sensational results and raised eyebrows.
Norwegian success coach tipped as successor to the elite national team’s shooting coach, Siegfried Mazet, who just dropped the bombshell that he will step down after the 2026 Olympics.
Former Latvian biathlon coach hit his athlete so hard that he lost the rest of the season. Now, Ole Einar Bjørndalen reacts with disbelief. “Terrible story,” rages the biathlon star after the violent episode during the World Championships.
Jakob, Henrik, and Filip Ingebrigtsen are bringing a cross-country skiing coach into their latest project. The 35-year-old is now in a full-time position and will be working with something completely different from what she expected.
The success coach of Kristine Stavås Skistad has made a decision about next season.
The former cross-country skier and women’s team coach, Andreas Domeij, is leaving his role with the Swedish national cross-country ski team.
He was part of the future of Norwegian biathlon in the early 2000s, with Junior World Championship medals and Norwegian Championship gold in relay. But illness had other plans. Instead, the talent from Oslo became a true nomad as a national team coach. Now, he’s back in Poland and responsible for their women’s team.
A former national team coach fears the consequences of the training trend that many cross-country skiers have gotten carried away with.
Even though “everyone” trains at altitude, the Norwegian National Team members stay in lower altitudes. That’s why the elite national men’s team continues to skip altitude training.
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