The best placement in the world CUP Sunday became Hanna mr öberg’s fourth place. Medaljskörden stayed thus at a gold (Hanna Öberg in distansloppet), one silver (women’s relay) and a bronze (Hanna Öberg and Sebastian Samuelsson in singelmixedstafett)
” I’m really happy. I’m no statistician, but perhaps it was this the best world cup ever for Swedish biathlon. Three medals and twelve top ten placements, ” says Wolfgang Pichler when he meets the press in the blizzard of the Östersund world CUP-arena.
– Ladies ‘ team effort is the best in the world CHAMPIONSHIPS and in almost every race we have been with and fought for medals. It has been amazing. We are not a big covenant, we cannot compare ourselves with countries like Germany, Russia or Norway. Nevertheless, we are one of the best teams in our hometown. More had we not been able to hope for.
are the assignments around the head. Until watching a couple of happy, but tired, eyes. Sunday was the end of a four year long journey with the goal to make Sweden into a nation to be reckoned with in the skidskyttevärlden. It is now fulfilled.
How Wolfgang Pichlers future is not clear. Now he’s going to go home to German Ruhpolding and consider.
” The only thing I know is that I put me on a train to Stockholm 05.35 and then I fly home. And on Tuesday 17.00 I’m going to play tennis with a friend.
” I have a few offers, but I’m not going to make any decisions yet. I’m going to take two weeks now, and think about what direction my life should take.
” Yes, but it is not relevant. With 99 percent certainty, I will not take a job like this again. And I will continue in Sweden, I’m basically american, but I do not know in what position or what I should do than.
– The last four years have been really difficult. Every day I have thought of the biathlon. If you can’t sleep when someone in the team is sick it is so tough.
I don’t know if I have the energy. I am tired, even I never thought that I would be able to be so in my life, but I need to rest.
On the women’s side, it looks really good. We have ten to twelve really good talent and a good set-up here in Östersund, sweden, on the men’s side it looks bad. We only have five men who are at the level that they can compete in the world cup and behind it there is nothing. It’s like in american sports overall, on the men’s side it is a disaster.
” I don’t know if I have the energy. I am tired, even I never thought that I would be able to be so in my life, but I need to rest.
the secretary-general Ingemar Arwidson is a concrete plan on who will take over the Pichlers jobs, in addition to a coachtjänst be added. The 1 may start training for next season, before then, should the new organization be in place.
“We have a process running, but we will not publish anything in the near future,” says Arwidsson is clear that he in no way want to involve Wolfgang Pichler in the Swedish biathlon in the future.
” We will not let go of the Wolfgang brand. I’m going to bring this dialogue further, then we will see what the end product of that will be, ” says Arwidson.
The Swedish riders celebrates the best pictures, but also the leaders who worked alongside him. Mona Brorsson, one of the riders in the Swedish stafettsilverlaget do not have a clear picture of what type of leader would be best as the new head coach.
” But it is important to have a strong leader that has a clear line and get the whole team forward. Wolfgang has certainly built up a strong and good system, with a base here in Östersund, sweden, where we train together, every pass. We have coaches here that are available, basically around the clock, seven days a week, year round and I don’t believe that there are many who have.
” I definitely think that we should use what we have today. At the same time, perhaps it would be good with someone looking at skidskyttet with new eyes. But I am glad it is not I who is sitting, and shall recruit for the it feels tough to fill More shoes.
that leaves the world CHAMPIONSHIPS with three medals, the trust that the federation will do a good job with the recruitment of a new head coach, but believes that it is not crucial to her future development which the person who gets the job.
” I think it will be good. And I trust the most to myself what it comes to my own development. I will put down the job that is required in order to continue to develop as a biathlete.
” The longer you have been through as a biathlete, it is natural to want to be with and develop more than it has been in the Wolfgang when it has been very controlled.
