Sweden’s head coach Inge BrÃ¥ten doesn’t believe in Swedish sprint-dominance this season.
Bråten Reducing Expectations For Sprint Team
FasterSkier · October 19, 2006
 secure his future. It’s not often you get the type of offers he got this summer. His motivation hasn’t been the best either, says BrÃ¥ten.</p><p>Thobias Fredriksson:<br />
– Thobias has been waiting for the birth of his girlfriend’s baby for a long time. It was supposed to happen at the end of September, but nothing has happened so far. Training has therefore not been the main focus for last year’s World Cup second place winner</p></div><div class=)
Peter Larsson:
– Peter has struggled with a virus this summer, and has as a result not been able to train as he would have liked.
BrÃ¥ten believes on the other hand that the Swedes will do better in the longer races this winter. Mathias Fredriksson and Anders Sœdergren will be factors you can count on, he says. But he is still predicting that Norway will dominate.
РThe reality is that we are like a little kid-brother compared to Norway. There are ten good skiers for every one good skier in Sweden, underlines Br̴ten.
He doesn’t believe in World Championship success similar to the Olympic success in Torino.
– We can say that Worlds isn’t as important as the Olympics when we do poorly in Sapporo. We are now looking toward 2010, says BrÃ¥ten with a smile.
Source: Langrenn.com