Daniel Rickardsson break with the national team - is investing in its own direction

"Daniel Rickardsson break with the national team - is investing in its own direction."

"Längdåkaren Daniel Rickardsson has decided to invest a further season."

"Veteran of do it in-house and drop out of the national team training group."

""I have thrived well in the national team, but want to try something new," he says to Sportbladet."

"the Swedish ski association has already announced that Ida Ingemarsdotter finish their elitkarriär. The federation will on Friday present the new landslagsgrupperna in length."

"Veteran Daniel Rickardsson, 37, will not be in the united kingdom that are notified."

"It is a decision he arrived at after a season that not really as he wished, which largely depended on the damage. He came in 14th place as the best individual in the world cup and the 15th place in the world CUP championships in skiathlon and 50 km free style."

"After the world CUP, 37-year-old questions about the upcoming season, but could not then leave some information and we joked a bit about the challenge of what he should do then:

"But that is not the case."

"– Ha Ha, nah. So bad it is not. I've never really hesitated about continuing. Of late, I have been thinking about how. I have not received the results I desired and must find a way to go faster, " he says."

"A point is to find the optimal way for him to get a cut-is a private venture outside the national team director."

" I have been with for a long time in the national team and enjoyed good. But now I have a blank page in front of me. I will be able to have all the focus on myself, " he says."

"He will continue to have some assistance from the men's national team coach Mattias Nilsson."

"– Mattias, Jonas Peterson, new landslagschef) and Johan (Olsson) have a full understanding of my decision. We separated as friends, but I have to deliver to be with when the world cup kicks off. Sure, I miss sparring, but I can get at home also, " says Daniel Rickardsson."

"the Veteran, who has taken seven mästerskapsmedaljer which an individual will change their approach to get up speeden earlier in the season. This means, among other things, more high-intensity training early in the autumn. It could mean that Daniel Rickardsson pops up on the one and the other löptävling in the autumn."

"– I hope to get to keep me injury-free and carry out the workouts I plan to do. It will be a key for me, " he says."

"the Goal is to beat the national team in the autumn again and compete in the world cup next season which is mästerskapsfri."

"– The ideal would be to get up on the podium again in the world cup, " he says."

"You lose a financial support when you are standing outside of the national team, but it handles you?"

"" I have a lot of private sponsors, so it's good. The decision has not been dependent on it."

"If it gets a few more championships for Daniel Rickardsson, however, remains to see. The coming season is mästerskapsfri and he takes one year at a time."

"Daniel Rickardsson made his debut in the world cup in 2004 and has during his career also made a bet on the long-distance race."