Five top figure skaters on the Swedish women’s national skating team make their own arrangements for the upcoming season in different ways.
Disorders related to ski profiles Torgny Mogren:
When you hear that more and more people are breaking out and making their own plans, the situation becomes strange. There will be no women’s team left in the national team. It has to be the best out there, that’s the thing.
There have been disruptions to the length of the national team dam this spring and summer with several dropouts.
Lynn Sfan runs her own group due to her shoulder injury.
Frida Carlson and Maja Dalqvist are leading themselves, outside the national team, after disagreeing with management on their pre-season plan.
And last week it became known that Jonna Sundling and Emma Ribom are still in the national team coaching group, but will be going to camp at additional heights. Their personal trainer Magnus Engesson wondered that the national team would not train at high altitude before the season.
– Ideally, they thought it was good to be in Val Senalis in October as usual. Ingesson told Expressen that the national team has a camp this year in Vålådalen, so that’s not possible.
‘strange case’
Former five-mile world champion Tourney Mogrenan expert commentator on Radio Sport Now, does not like what he sees in the women’s national team:
When you hear that more and more people are breaking out and making their own plans, the situation becomes strange. There will be no women’s team left in the national team.
Mogren continues:
– The best must be included. This is the goal of the team, and then the newcomers come to see how hard it is to train and belong to the global elite. It’s falling completely flat now.
Trinidad and Tobago: Concerned about the development of the women’s team?
– Yes, to some extent when there are a lot of dropouts. It looks like this now that there is virtually no one in the camps.
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Regarding the high-altitude Sundling and Ribom camp, Torgny Mogren says:
– It is also a step in the form that there must be dissatisfaction with how the training is conducted in the training camps. Then I don’t know if they were not satisfied with the places that were planned. It’s strange that we end up in this situation.
– It feels like the women’s team is falling apart. But I don’t think it will affect the cohesion between the girls. Mogren says the disagreement between union and individuals is not good.
Trinidad and Tobago: What do you think should be done about the situation?
– The easiest thing was to give them the freedom to run their own training camps. Some want a little less drive and some want to train harder than planned. That must be understood.
The national team manager answers
Anders Bystrom, the national team manager, stressed that there is no reason to worry that a leak will affect results this winter when the World Cup in Valencia is the highlight.
– If we don’t perform this winter, you can start to worry. Being worried now I think is a bit unnecessary. To us, it seems completely tragic. We will have a good national team this winter.
Trinidad and Tobago: You have a challenge with many desires and opinions about the national team.
– It is in all jobs and all sports. There are opinions. We have to see what is best for both the team and the individuals. Someone might want to stand outside, but you need to be sure of our mission. It is to achieve results in the winter. Then there are different ways to get there. Anders Bystrom says: “We want the national team to be the strongest path out there in the future.