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When Fredrik Lindström joined the biathlon team, Wolfgang Pichler was the national team.
Now the Olympic gold hero is commented on Sweden’s new coach and his importance for today’s national team.
– He can take people in a very good way, Lindström tells the Sports Bible.
Fredrik Lindström35, was part of the men’s quartet that took Olympic gold in relay in 2018. Together Sebastian SamuelssonThe Jesper Nelin and Peppe Femling he wrote Swedish sports history. At that time it was the legend Wolfgang Pichler70, who was the national team for Sweden’s national team. Today is the “disciple” Johannes Lukas31, which has that role.
Fredrik Lindström’s words about Wolfgang
Lindström remembers the time with Wolfgang Pichler with joy.
– I have a lot to thank Wolfgang for. Especially at the beginning of your career when you were a little young and inexperienced and would take this big and quite difficult step into the senior environment. He helped me with that. Then towards the end of his career when he came back as the national team and so, it was a bit … Then I chose to go my own way and have another coach. But there is nothing bad about Wolfgang, he tells the Sports Bible and continues:
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– He shaped many of those who have great careers right now. He was with them and washed out too, so it is clear that he has written a lot of history for Swedish biathlon and that is a wonderful personality you can still say. A character.
Lindström praises Johannes Lukas
It is not only Wolfgang Pichler who receives praise from Fredrik Lindström. Johannes Lukas was a coach (first as an intern, then as responsible for technical training and strength training before he became assistant coach) while Pichler ruled.
– Yes, exactly. He was with my last years. Then he was assistant to Wolfgang you can say. So I know John well, he says.
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He continues to comment on what Johannes Lukas means to Sweden and its biathlon team.
– His significance has been great. Despite his young age, he is such a great leader and can take people in a very good way and create wonderful energy around him. He can control, but he is also humble and takes help from outside. He has, like, been the centerpiece of that leadership team that works so well together. This is what has been missing before. He is a real star and a gold nugget in the national team, he says.
Exciting to hear about Wolfgang and John! They are two major and important sports profiles in Sweden.
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