Nils van der Poel went to “rest” after the last Olympics. However, he decided to do it in the Army Special Forces. The Swedish speed skating hero is quite a specialist, writes Pekka Holopainen.
Swedish former head coach of the speed skating national team Mattias Hadders was the man who sold his land in the spring of 2018. The old tradition finally had in his hands a tremendous talent, 22 years old Nils van der Poel the city of Trollhättan, which is also familiar to Finns from Saab’s factories.
However, the young man stated that he needed rest and left the species indefinitely.
At the Oval in Beijing, a man whose career was already considered patted was aired on Sunday.
As is well known from the history of sports, such periods of meditation always always mean a decline in one’s career, at least from the point of view of top sports.
On Sunday night, last spring’s two-time world champion Nils van der Poel won the 5,000-meter Olympic gold in the Beijing Oval.
Van der Poel fits into the molds of the common man in almost nowhere, not even here. Namely, in the spring of 2018, he set out to gather strength and rest in his special army battalion of the Swedish army, which he had won through a demanding selection test. Training in Lapland has the same intensity as, for example, Finnish parachute training.
Even so, the passionate enthusiast van der Poel, a man of about a thousand jumps, would have survived.
Where Pekka Koskela (pictured) was a legendary strong man in the weight room, Nils van der Poel rarely pops around the irons.
Sports magazine in an interview last spring, he made it clear that he wanted to break the monotony of his athlete’s daily life with his special choice, rather than rediscovering its meaning after the break.
“When I skate a 10,000m race, it can be outrageous at 6,000m, but I know it will end soon. In military training, on the other hand, I didn’t know if we were skiing for another two days or because we were getting food and dry gear, ”the reserve guerrilla radio station said.
When the army’s rig was handed over in 2019, the man-grown van der Poel dug a rubber suit and long-edged naphthalene and the rest is history.
On the aforementioned royal trip, he is an even bigger gold medal favorite than the 5,000-meter, who seemed to have already lost a victory. Another 1,300 meters before the finish back in the Netherlands To Patrick Roest was two seconds, traveling about 28 meters.
The cool head took to implement the game plan made with the coach without panicking. In the finish, the profit margin was 0.47 seconds. Sounds like a blink of an eye, but means about seven meters at these speeds.
In Olympic circles, a cool head can only swing on the shoulders of a well-trained and healthy athlete. Let’s take a look at a guy’s training program, for example, from the opening week of July 2020. The following series of numbers runs from top to bottom in the right margin: 10, 9, 9, 8, 9, 8 and 7.
And what do they mean? The number of hours cycled by Van der Poel each day. From that, everyone can deduce what a real-life Rambo is all about.
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Van der Poel has run dozens of longest 170-kilometer ultramarathons and cycled long-distance across Sweden several times.
Outside of the speed skating season, the best content for life is snowboarding, wilderness skiing and skydiving. With his jumping club in Västerås, the Olympic winner lives in a hut he built with his own hands in a tree.
There where is the sprinter Pekka Koskela raged in his time in the weight room for his legendary results, the long-distance skinning van der Poel responds very rarely to the call of the record bar. Koskelan and Mika Poutalankin the examples showed that world-class success in even ascetic training conditions is not entirely impossible.
Van der Poel’s “home palace” is an undersized track in a barren hockey rink where the speeder is always on steep curves at the mercy of the centrifugal forces. On ice, he trains with powers that would be an unworkable place for others to recover their nervous system and musculature.
How does he withstand such powers? The answer can be found there a couple of pieces above.
When van der Poel, in an interview in the spring of 2021, guided the signer into the world of his internship, he was forced to ask for the reason for the action.
The guy laughed, took a break and acknowledged:
“If no one should train like this, then why am I the only man who has skated 10,000 meters at 12.32.94?”
And yet …
Nils van der Poel’s success wouldn’t be surprising if he came from where the name suggests: speed skating dominating Holland. His grandfather eventually moved from Holland to Sweden and van der Poel cannot speak Flemish. Misunderstandings are reportedly common.
Judging by the names, the 5,000-meter podium had three Flemish speakers, but the Dutch and Belgian dominant language is folded from the trio only by silver medalist Patrick Roest (left) and bronze medalist Bart Swings (right). Nils van der Poel’s grandfather eventually moved from the Netherlands to Sweden.
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