Too old for JWOC – “a pity!”
Posted on | June 2, 2013 | Category: Arena
Every weekend since the start of the year, Tove Alexandersson has either been to a training camp or taking part in races, but do you think that makes the Swedish athlete tired? No way!
Much has happened in Tove’s sporting life so far this year. In January the first-year senior impressed a lot in New Zealand and set up a big gap to the second best after the first races in the World Cup. Then in February she became double World Champion in ski orienteering. “The year has gone very well so far”, she says.
There has been no sickness or injury to talk about. The only sickness has been five–six days with influenza, and sometimes she has felt some small things and hasn’t run so much just to be a bit careful. The 20 years and nine months old athlete has done some great work in training and this has given results. “I am now stronger physically”, she says.
Last year at WOC she got a medal both in the middle distance and the relay. Both times it was silver. “I can perform better than last year and I want to do well, but I don’t know what kind progress the other athletes have achieved, so I don’t have any specific medal goal for WOC”, she says. “But WOC is the main goal for me this year”.
So far this year the Swede has been at competitions or training camps every weekend. “But I am not concentrating so hard on all races. Some are mostly training”, she says.
– It’s a lot of races, though?
“It’s in fact fewer this year compared to last year”.
– Fewer! Really?
“I am too old for JWOC this year. It’s a pity. I could very well have taken part in it. In Sweden I have competed against the seniors for a while as a junior”, she says. Both in ski and foot orienteering it is because of her becoming a senior that she is running fewer races.
At WOC she is already selected for the middle distance and she will also run the sprint or the long distance.
– Just one of sprint and long? Couldn’t you have taken them both?
“That could have been possible, but my wish is to perform at my very best at WOC, and the long distance is the day after the qualification and final in the sprint. So the optimal situation is to take part either in sprint or long”.
Incredible! There is actually something Alexandersson says no to!
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