Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland
This is the Olympic season, and most top coaches dream of the medals their racers will win in PyeongChang. Not so the senior trainer of the Swiss cross-country ski team, Albert "Bärti" Manhart. The 50-year-old Swiss was a junior trainer of Dario Cologna and has progressed with him, so to speak, to end up in charge of the whole Swiss team, both male and female. With Cologna in shape and the up-and-coming stars such as Nathalie von Siebenthal and Nadine Fähndrich growing in strengh year by year, the Team Swiss had a very good shot at the medals at the Olympics. Still does – but now without Manhart. "A certain fatigue has set in. I feel burnt out, need some pause and rest." he told the Swiss newspaper Blick upon…