--- In Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com, "Nils Lid Hjort" <nils@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Well, we must very much hope he does not stop
> his career this early in his life -- though
> of course his priorities need to be respected,
> regardless, and career and career may mean
> two different things. Wetten is Norway's
> best sprinter and the national team is vulnerable.
>
> Without necessarily having Even's particular
> fate in mind, I am curious enough to ask
> having repeated from skating history *which
> successful comeback examples* do we have?
> And is it relatively speaking easier to come back
> after a season's absence for a sprinter than
> for an allrounder?
>
> * Casey Fitzrandolph was away for the 2005 season,
> as a voluntary break, and was quite successful
> in his final 2006 season.
>
> * How is Wotherspoon doing, isn't he planning
> to come back, after taking 2007 off?
>
> * What's the correct story regarding Gerard
> van Velde, did he really have a full stop,
> before coming back, or was it merely a case
> of "half machine" for a season?
>
> * Going back further in our history books,
> is Terry McDermott an example of "quitting
> but then coming back"?
>
> * Other examples (successful or not)? Igor Malkov?
> Oscar Mathisen? Rolf Falk-Larssen? Mark Spitz?
>
> Nils Lid Hjort
>
> ... from Cambridge, where we need to bike
> on the wrong side of the road.
>
> > According to the NSF web site, Even Wetten
> > leaves 'Team Mueller'. The reason is the former
> > World Chmpions lack of success the last seasons.
> > Wetten also has an injury that he seems to
> > relate to coach Mueller's training methods.
>

What about Hjallis - taking 1953-season off ?
- but didn't reach the 52-level !

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