The skier says he is a recluse.
Cross-country skier Remi Lindholm28, measure is full. The man is not going to accept a position in the Ski Association’s A national team, if there is a new head coach Joakim Abrahamsson offers it.
– No one has been in touch that there is even a place in the national team. But even if it is offered, I have decided that I will train as a lone wolf during the basic training season, Lindholm announces.
What factors influence your decision?
– I’m quite good at training by myself. I don’t need a group around me. I don’t feel that group training is useful for me. I live in Vuokatti, where most of the Finnish skiers are, so if necessary I can have a training company, Lindholm answers.
The skier underlines that personal chemistry does not affect the decision.
– They are all really good guys in the national team. There are no problems.
With a place on the national team, the skier gets into the camp program of the basic training season.
– I thought about it last night between two and four o’clock. I haven’t quite decided yet whether I will do a long high-altitude training session in the summer on my own or if it will only be a matter of autumn.
Usually, the national team skiers have the right of way for the opening of the World Cup.
– It’s clear that at the beginning of next season you have to be in good shape if you want to go around the World Cup and give performances at the World Championships. It’s easier when you’re in the national team, then you have a guaranteed place in the World Cup.
Lindholm wants to put himself between the tree and the bark.
– It gives motivation. I have been in the national team for many years, so this gives a new spice to hit. You don’t have to follow other people’s schedules, you can think about things yourself.
A permanent factor
Remi Lindholm retires from the national skiing team. Jussi Saarinen
He will continue as Lindholm’s coach Santeri Erola.
– I don’t know if it’s a hard decision to leave the national team. After all, I also qualified for the 2022 Olympics from outside the national team.
The man representing the Imatra Athletes says that the national team place is not something that makes you happy.
– I am a recluse.
Hermit nature is part of a man’s charm. A skier gives a social impression in interview situations, for example.
– When I retire to train, it’s just training. Then you don’t really socialize.
Lindholm’s goal is to train 1,100 hours during the next season. At the most, an eager trainee has trained for about 1,200 hours per season.
– If you go to a high-altitude training camp, you have to drop the amount of training a little. You can’t train as much at high altitude as at sea level.
The athlete’s absolute main goal next season is success in the 50 km freestyle joint start of the World Championships in Falun. The man was seventh in the same event last year at the World Championships in Trondheim.
This season was ruined due to a stress fracture in my back that plagued me in the summer.
