okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, August 17, 2007
Some Sprint Thoughts From Sweden
Signar Eriksson, former national team leader for Sweden, from an article in DagensNyheter (roughly translated):
"The new distances haven't changed much in terms of the physical, but they have changed the mental aspects."
"We might not even have the best tools to prepare ourselves," said Eriksson, who is currently working on a survey of current and past elite orienteers to learn about the effect of the new distances.
"Emil [Wingstedt] is the one who has had the most success in the sprint. He has shown that he has the ability to stay cool under the big pressure of a sprint."
