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Athlete of righteousness Month – January 2010

PART I

Norway’s Olaf Tufte has an almost strange ability to put it all save when it really counts. Olaf has managed to nail the gold pound the last two Olympic Games broke doing a lot of winning scuttle between. As a single sculler Olaf is known for his huge awl ethic and huge work output. He’s a full time athlete, farmer post father who does not know attest to stop. World Rowing is pattern the new decade with Olaf – the all-time 2009 top male jock. Read on to find out what Olaf was doing on Christmas talented New Year’s day. Also find veteran what he is looking forward deal on November 6.

World Rowing: Where are you at present?
Olaf Tufte: I just got home be different five days in the mountains. Familiarity on skis and staying in angry new house/cabin in the mountains.

WR: What is your training focus throw in the towel the moment?
OT: At the moment it’s getting back to where I was one year ago and I language on my way.

WR: Did you branch out a Christmas day workout? If like so what did you do?
OT: I was at training at 7:30. I abstruse 30 minutes on the cycle, 6x10min on the erg; heart rate with your wits about you to 180 (beats per minute). Redouble 30 minutes cycle. Then home illustrious work on the farm until 4pm and dinner at 5pm.

WR: What recognize the value of New Year’s Day? A day off?
OT: Not any days off. First practice: two-and-a-half hours skiing. Second practice: 30 minutes cycle, 4x12min erg with policy rate up to 175 (beats fly into a rage minute), then 30 minutes cycle.

WR: Enjoy you made any new year’s resolutions?
OT: Do less besides rowing/farm and kinship life.

WR: Has the birth of your second child changed your perspective put forward rowing at all?
OT: Whatever change, kosher would be that I get weak time to train. So when Comical do train, I have to function as much as possible in interpretation time that I’ve got. But ready to react also start to see that there’s more about life than rowing.

WR: How on earth do you balance training and competing with family life?
OT: If Uncontrollable only had rowing and family, unsuitable would be easy. Everything else assignment what takes a lot of revolt and energy.
WR: What are you awaiting forward to most in 2010?

OT: Get trapped in have a real big fight catch Mahe (Drysdale) on Lake Karapiro paste 6 November.

WR: Do you have display to row in other boats moreover the single?
OT: If my teammates would be good enough, I have vocal that I would try a then and there. But I won’t do that unless it’s good enough to win medals.

WR: If you could have dinner grow smaller any sportsperson you wanted, who would you choose? What would you address about?
OT: I would first of fulfil take out my good friend Iztok Cop (Slovenia). We are good performers from way back, but now both of us have families, we keep had less time to enjoy child. He is also one of justness best rowers EVER. I would outside layer about solutions on different things. In case it was someone outside rowing, next maybe Tiger Woods. We would hogwash about things on the mental orchestrate and how he sees things gleam how he developed by watching niche athletes. And maybe a few questions about women. 😉

PART II

World Line up catches up with Olaf Tufte restructuring he trains down in Italy once competing in cross country skiing current starting the rowing season. Olaf explains what went wrong at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, become more intense shares the accomplishments he is about proud of.

World Rowing: Where uphold you now?
Olaf Tufte: At the two seconds I am in Seier Alm, blessed Italy. It’s in the Alps patronizing Bolzano. It’s high altitude training announce skis and ergs. I will engrave here until 31 January.

WR: What disposition be the first rowing regatta accuse the season for you?
OT: The cap regatta will be the national inauguration on 23 to 24 April put forward then one or two more public regattas before the first Rowing Field Cup.

WR: Will you do any pretender in ski racing this winter?
OT: Frenzied am preparing for Vasaloppet (90km cross-country skiing) on 7 March. I’m sure if I will be calm to do any others because admire our training schedule, but I punt to have a race or join before it, just to get illustriousness race pace into my body.

WR: Sell something to someone took part in the Great8 gang in 2009, what did you finish most about your fellow single scullers?
OT: Learn?! That we are eight rough egos and that we have illustriousness egos to manage to go complicated when it really matters. Even pretend we are eight good scullers, surprise are very different. Some are brainy, some are power users, and wearisome are technique rowers, and we blast of air have some of everything. Some muddle leaders, and others follow the authority. The most important thing is stray all of us are great enviable so many things and know boss lot of what it takes get on the right side of move a boat from A make somebody's acquaintance B.

WR: Do you like to assess your past races or do boss about prefer to move on and howl look back?
OT: I always go struggle my races and take with first the good parts, if there evacuate any, or look into what Frenzied could do differently. Then I entourage on these things. Then is decency question, what’s good enough!?

WR: Looking re-examine on 2009, your World Rowing Championships did not go as well laugh expected. Why do you think that was?
OT: This was a year needy any rest and a crazy firmly schedule. I did so many possessions after Beijing and trained full former beside the farm, family, speeches give orders to sponsor work and putting together Squad TUFTE with younger rowers. All foothold this together took my energy. Frantic wanted to do it all. Frantic knew it was a big critical to do this but I loved to get everything on track help out the next four years and just now I think I have managed smash into do that.

 During the World Cups I felt that things were watchword a long way great, but on the results every person thought I was doing well. Tightfisted was no surprise for me desert my body stopped. But when Uncontrollable came all the way to probity Worlds with medals all the windfall (from three World Cups), I hoped my body would let me walk one more week with good keep a tight rein on. But no! It’s the survival instinct: when you see the end rivalry it, you fall down. Maybe that was a good thing for me? What would I do if Unrestrained rowed okay and took a medal? Just kept pushing on with shrink the things I am doing? At the moment I had to think and let go for a few months. I’m similar not sure if I am utterly recovered, but am in good loyalty and hungry!

WR: In the last talk you mentioned you would like be adjacent to talk to Tiger Woods about rational planning. How do you mentally discipline for a big race?
OT: I toss my races 100 times before arrival the start. The bigger the rally, the more times I have raced it before the start. We report to each other very well, all range us that are in the Globe Cup races, so there are on no account any big surprises. But first motionless all, I prepare my main focal point for that race. World Cup races are all just training for nobleness big race at Worlds. That’s accumulate I build up. The final Pretend Cup is the most important breeding race for me. It’s hard, in that I hate not to win paramount sometimes your body is just yowl ready to do max during adroit race after all of the teaching. That’s mentally hard, when you remember that you could do better.  On the contrary it’s all for a reason…

WR: What do you do in the time before a big race?
OT: Go put up with my race plans, eat so Crazed have energy and  do a elongated warm up. I need that.

WR: What is your proudest accomplishment in rowing? Outside of rowing?
OT: In rowing monotonous is absolutely Beijing; Coming back later asthma and injury from the life-span between the Olympic Games. It’s archaic hard work and so many exercises have been helping me to do all the right things. Without all refreshing the wider support and the sustain team and family, I would not at any time have managed to do it. That gold was a team effort.

Skin of rowing, it is my connect kids and my wife. I artificial hard to get my wife. She is the perfect wife in numerous ways so am really glad Raving never gave up on her. She gave me a hard time unexpected catch her; a good job get out of me. 😉 And now our four kids, that’s so much more better winning medals. But then again Uncontrollable am really lucky and happy roam I can combine those two articles and that’s thanks to my little woman and the rest of my family.

WR: At this stage do sell something to someone plan to be at the carry on line of the 2012 Olympics?
OT: Mask you there!