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Countdown to Beijing 2022 | Newly-established Norway Nordic Combined team eyes to shine at Beijing 2022 Yao Youming
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Norway has formed Nordic Combined elite national teams, aiming to perform at the top level at Beijing 2022.
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) According to the International Ski Federation (FIS) website, the Norwegian Ski Association has selected eight athletes for the elite national teams in the combined season 2021-2022.
For the men s team, which has five elite athletes, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be the main goal next season. The list of requirements to get into the elite teams Nordic Combined has never been more high-level. Common to all selected is that they came home from the FS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf with medals, said the Norwegian Ski Association sports director Ivar Stuan.
Sandell steps down as head coach of Norway s Nordic combined team Monday, 26 April 2021
Peder Sandell has stepped down as the head coach of Norway’s Nordic combined team, it has been announced.
Sandell had held coaching roles at the Norwegian Ski Association over the past five years, including serving as head coach for the past two seasons.
According to Norwegian newspaper
Aftenposten, Sandell has decided to step away from the role to spend more time with his young family. The feeling of a child who is sad when you leave the kindergarten, many recognise themselves in, Sandell told
Aftenposten. Then it becomes much more amplified when you say goodbye and know that you will be away for anywhere from ten days to three weeks.
Corona spoils ski jumper’s championship
March 3, 2021
Norwegian ski jumper Halvor Egner Granerud was having an outstanding season and favoured at the Nordic Ski World Championships this week, until he tested positive for the Corona virus. The team’s press chief was also sent into isolation and then another Norwegian sports official was found to be breaking the rules by not wearing a face mask.
“This obviously means that my world championship (participation) is over,” a disappointed Granerud wrote on social media Wednesday. He wrote that he was feeling only “slightly unwell” but would have to drop the rest of the competition in Oberstdorf.