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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Age or motivation
Egil Johansen -- a top Norwegian orienteer before becoming their national team coach from 1991-97 and 2000-02 -- had a few thoughts about age and motivation. Here is a rough translation. The original article is here.
The Norwegian O' Federation has always spent more of its elite budget for developing young, promising orienteers.
"But we can't put young runners on the WOC team. The best have to be on the WOC team regardless of age. For the "Euromeeting" it is different," according to Johansen.
Is motivation more important than age?
"Yes, definitely. Mathias Karlsson, a first-timer, was a strong part of Sweden's relay gold medal. He is 31 years old. Karolina Hojsgaard took silver in the long distance. She had few international merits and is 32 years old. It seems like we have to think about this in a whole different way than we did before," says Johansen.
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