Norwegian National Cycling Team spotted!

This Sunday I spotted a car belonging to the Norwegian National Cycling Team here in Gothenburg. Where? Outside the (Norwegian) outdoor recreation and sports equipment chain store XXL, of course!

For quite some time Norway has had many successful bicyclists, both road and mountain bike, while Sweden and Finland (we're Swedish and Finnish, OK?) just haven't had that many. Thor Hushovd, Alexander Kristoff and Edvald Boasson Hagen are three examples of really good Norwegian road riders. We would argue that, for example, Jussi Veikkanen from Finland and Fredrik Kessiakoff from Sweden are great road riders too, but they have retired from professional cycling.

There are, however, riders in both our countries that we think have many victories ahead of them.

(We borrowed this picture from Lotta Lepistö's twitter page. Hope that's OK!)

(We borrowed this picture from Emma Johansson's home page. Hope that's OK!)

(We borrowed this picture from Sara Olsson's blog. Hope that's OK!)

Lotta Lepistö from Finland, for example. We have mentioned her before and you can read more about her here. From Sweden we have Emma Johansson (read more about her here) and Sara Olsson (read more about her here). Time will tell if we're right, but we are impressed by them already. And no, we don't know where they shop their sports equipment. ;)

Ride safe!