Tophot OL-guldhelt keeping in time as lukewarm midnats-prowl

HERNING, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): 27 minutes and 11 seconds. It is measured in official WORLD cup stats, everything so far has been to Morten Olsen, who in order to stay in business and get the lack of playing time out of the body fuses around the corner by the hotel, and directly control from styrkecentret, when the team is late returning to the hotel from the Box.

When he finished lugging iron around noon. a night, room-partner Simon Hald made sure that there is a nice plateful of food ready in the room – and then it's actually a little easier to fall asleep.

- Even if you're not playing, you know, set themselves up for it. Mentally are we there yet and has prepared us. After all, we are not tired, so it's damn nicer to get the energy out of the body, says Morten Olsen, who is joined by Nikolaj Markussen on his nocturnal excursions in Herning.

He finals, debuted with a decent blast during the OLYMPIC games in Rio, where he took his baton after apologies from the injured Rasmus Lauge. It ended up in gold, and Morten OL-sen was tophot!

Now he is not even lukewarm in Herning, but despite the personal frustrations, he has no problems with that joy on the team's behalf:

- No, this is so cool, we come here for. I hope we will be allowed to stand in the final with the atmosphere – it must be game in the Box. It would be great for us as a team and of course also for me personally to be able to call themselves world champion, no matter if I only have the game a half hour or three quarter, says the man from Osted.

I can well live with, if I may call myself the world champion. When I look three years back, I had not at all thought I was going to get to one finals. So, if I can stand after this WORLD cup, and call me olympic champion and world champion, so I will be well satisfied with the last three years.

Only Henrik Toft, who got 17 seconds against Hungary, has played less than Morten Olsen, however, notes that he was in action in the ca. 25 minutes in the first match, but since he doesn't cover up enough, only was recorded for ten minutes in the statistics. Photo: Jens Dresling
What has gone wrong?

- nothing as such. We have won six matches, so it is gone very well. After all, we are a team and Nikolaj is Überboss. When Nicholas says, we are going to play, then we are ready.

But it must be a special discipline and hard in the head?

- It is probably the most difficult as a player to have the position, Nikolaj Markussen and I have pt. It's about to put the fighting away and get on with it, and so it is very nice just to come over and work out a little.

you Have utilized the time well enough?

- I have not been able to do otherwise. We are a team, and I'm not a ’one man army’, so I shall not prove anything. I know there are experts who believe I have to prove something. But in most matches I have been in six or seven attacks, and I know not where the big difference you should be able to do. It is a team play, he says.

- We have a goal, and that is win the WORLD cup. I don't have any goal of having to make five on the five, because some believe, I need to show I can!

But is it not almost harder to sit unused outside than to play at full speed?

- It is much harder up in the head to sit outside than to play. I don't think anyone thinks that it is the world's funniest, but we are also a team and all have a role. I knew, of course, also well within the tournament, who is førstekæde and so on. I completely resolved with, and if we can go all the way, then it will be almost as large as the OLYMPICS.

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