"I will be back with two challenging programs!"
I'm so glad he sounds so much better and is happy training in the US. He really lacks the necessary support back home.
I think Adrian's new confidence shows the support he has at home. Also financially, how else could he practice in US for eight weeks? I too wish Adrian could go to US full time if that's what he wants. But to be fair, a majority of talented skaters around the world can't afford moving to top coaches in North America.
http://www.dn.se/sport/schultheiss-ser-slutet-efter-os
glam posted this link in the Spanish skating thread a while back. Is there any way someone could be kind enough to please translate? I will be eternally grateful.
Written before Swedish Nationals:
Schultheiss views the end after Olympic Games.
A. S. thought of quit skating after all troubles last season. Now he risks missing Europeans because of a slipped disk - and talks about ending his carrier after the OG in two years.
He will miss Swedish Nationals in Malmö. The injury from two months ago has not healed.
- I think my body was very tired. I was at a competition and we had lots of early mornings. One morning when I practiced a jump, I felt my back hurt badly, he says to TT (news agency) in a chilly room back stage Malmö Ice Stadium.
How bad would it be for you to miss EC?
- I just have to accept it. There is nothing else I can do.
Later in spring there will be WC.
- But then I have to be in good shape in time, do some results. I can't go unprepared to WC.
- That's why I keep on. I want to compete at the big events, show who I am and make results.
Adrian has had a hard time after his success nearly two years ago, when he finished ninth in Torino. Last season was worthless - his own words. A move and a club- and coach change.
- Last year was tough. Somehow I couldn't handle that. I was a little low from all of it, a bit depressed.
But now A. S. gives it all in spite of the back injury ruining the fall. The hunger for figure skating is there.
Last summer it felt differently.
- Then there were all kind of thoughts, about quitting, taking a brake, leaving the country and bury myself under a blanket.
But they are gone now then?
- Yes.
Is your goal still the Olympic Games?
- Yes, then I'll see. Suppose I can't do more than to go there.
Then it's finished?
- Yes, probably.
