Carolina Kluft tells Swedish media to lay off the new stars, by Alfons Juck

Sweden is track and field crazy. The new stars of track & field in Sweden are under huge pressure to perform. Swedish media compares the young stars to the stars of the past: Carolina Kluft, Christian Olsson and Stefan Holm.

Kluft may be the second greatest heptathlete of all times. Her domination of her era should not be underestimated. However, Kluft has chastised the Swedish press on comparing young stars to the golden stars of the past. She is worried about the stress it puts on the new stars.

Kelly Sotherton, Carolina Kluft, Birmingham 2007,

photo by PhotoRun.net

GOTEB0RG (SWE): Olympic gold medal winning heptathlete Carolina Kluft has criticized the Swedish media for comparing the current top Swedish athletes with the best Swedish athletes of former years, such as Christian Olsson and herself. She said that the constant pressure can be psychologically damaging. Reports aftonbladet.se.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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