Jac Orie) recognizes that the continuing pain in the back of Sven Kramer, a reason to care for the Jumbo Visma. The coach is expected, nevertheless, that the 33-year-old Friesian this weekend in a crucial national championship distances, where the tickets for the big schaatstoernooien in 2020 is at stake, it is in a excellence.

“If you have back and are not discussed here, it is really fit just right in a great location. That is what the Job is perhaps better than ever before. If his back holds out, he rode just fast Vessel,” said Orie, recently, at a press conference in the centre of Almere.

now, Who are struggling for years with back problems, but the symptoms occur in the last period of time more and more often, and more now. He got another ticket, for the first of four world cups, but after a disappointing performance in Infrastructure, he made the World Cups in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Nur-Sultan, and in every aspect of the shoot.

It looked like last summer, better to go to the back of the Subject, but after a collision with a car in the middle of October, with a knee injury suffered, was less to do with the physical well-being of the four-time olympic champion.

“We have a long, long time, that’s a good longer term, but these times are now getting shorter all the time”, says Orie. “Since the summer has been very good with his back to his a bike, was ridden. After that, the process is all over the place. It was more unstable. It is, in fact, is not that you can rely on.”

Albert, Who is struggling with pain in the back. (Photo: Pro-Shots).

“It makes us call them’

now, The question is, how to, Who, there, at the moment, and though he was last week on Friday, make the necessary impression in a trainingswedstrijd version is an unofficial Dutch record in the 3,000 meters (3.37,39).

The negenvoudig olympic medalist, who at the beginning of this month, at a training camp in preparation for the Jumbo-Visma-in the Italian Collalbo preparing for the national championships, I was trainingswedstrijd still a bit unsure about the state of his back. Those doubts were also shared by the 51-year-old Orie.

“At the moment it’s going pretty well, but his back continues to be a very big issue. I wish I was there to make predictions about that could be done, but I can’t. We will try as best as possible to the client, however, you need to constantly take into account your back. It makes us don’t.”

the Orie doesn’t want to think of the scenario that is Subject to the national championships due to back problems did not properly perform and, therefore, the tickets for the major tournaments (european CHAMPIONSHIPS and world CHAMPIONSHIP distances, and the CHAMPIONSHIP round) to go wrong. “First, let’s take a look at how it’s going to be at the national championships. As it is now, is he going to just run it and it drives nice as well.”

now, Sven Kramer, on the hunt for tickets for the big tournament. (Photo: Pro-Shots).

” Specialists have to advise you about the operation,’

In the meantime, it looks at Subject itself is already. He thinks he is seriously thinking about surgery, at the end of the season, even though it is not clear if any medical intervention is actually for the improvement of care. Orie is preferably of non-interference in this matter.

“I’m a trainer, they are the experts who advise on the operation. It’s not my place to be. It is the only one who’s back and feels that it is he,” said the coach on the Jumbo-Visma, which has to do with the Subject.

“That is, did you feel that I am not, of course, but I’m living it as a coach, do it. I’d like to see that everyone has the potential to take out it is. Of course you must have the Job before a fight in order to stay positive, but it’s the only thing we can do is to talk about it, and look to the future.”

Who will come at the national championships the distances, in action in the 1500 metres and 5 kilometres. The tournament will be from Friday to Sunday, is held in the Vessel.