Monday 24th of February 1997. It’s 7.30 in the morning; I just woke up and I am envisioning the day ahead. Imagine if I could, on this day, here, at the World Championships, on the home course, accomplish racing the perfect race! The perfect race that every top athletes dream about, strives for, year after year, but which you only rarely experience and then with years in between. I’m not talking about winning; the perfect...
Many people who are coaching juniors today have told me that they are seeing more and more problems with overtraining, even though the juniors are actually training less than earlier generations. This means that it will take more years to build themselves up to reach the top level. The question is whether they will make it at all, and whether they are willing to do it when they know that for many years they must...
I never did become a good Nordic Combined skier. First and foremost that can be blamed on the jumping, which is something I never did get a hold of. After a jump that only went as far as the knoll, I would be too far back in the cross-country portion. Even back then I would open hard, but I hit the wall well before the finish. As a 14 year-old I took part in the...