Karsten Warholm (26) is aware that the World Cup in the USA will be his most difficult challenge in his career. He is still not 100 percent aware that he can ask.
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It emerges in an interview with The Gazzetta dello Sport.
– I’m not 100 percent sure. In training, I have not yet pushed myself to the maximum. I have to do it to know how the body will react. If I have no problems, I will be in place and be more aggressive than ever, says the Olympic and world champion.
– It is a challenging time: I have never had such a problem. It is a serious setback, but it is getting better day by day. I’m almost ready, Warholm tells the Italian sports newspaper.
When asked about the competition from Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos, Ulsteinvik’s eldest son answers:
– I have the most difficult challenge in my career. I have great respect for them. Dos Santos’ progress does not surprise me.
Do not think world record
Warholm answers a clear “yes” to whether it is “enough” if he wins World Cup gold.
However, the world record holder is clear that one “does not always” have to think about 45.94, the historical time he won Olympic gold during the Tokyo Olympics last year.
At the Olympics in Tokyo a year ago, he also broke the world record and became the first in the world in 46 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles. In La Gazzetta dello Sport, time is compared to Bob Beamon’s legendary 8.90 meters in length at the Mexico Olympics – 55 centimeters longer than the old record.
Trained in the pool
He talks about how he has worked since he was injured in Morocco on 5 June. About how he, thanks to Puma’s international top manager Bjørn Gulden, got nine days in Munich with the famous doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, about how he has trained in the pool and worked with his trainer Leif Olav Alnes and physiotherapist Håvard Moksnes.
– I think he runs the World Cup and I think Karsten wins the World Cup, Bjørn Gulden has stated to VG.
The Norwegian Olympic hero believes that the form in the World Cup will not be ideal after a five-week “break”, but says that the fruits of the effort he put in before the World Cup season is not wasted.
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