“Ski by yourself asshole and you will feel how it feels!”br/br/ – emA reply from Arthur Häggblad, after the Swedish championships in Falun in the 1930’s to the governor who had asked him how his race felt. Arthur was on the swedish national team and got a bronze medal at the relay in the olymics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He also won Vasaloppet 4 times.br/br//em
From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.