Thoralf Hognestad took charge of Team Norway after the Torino Paralympics, and led them to back to back world Championships in 2007 and 2008. Work commitments after the 2009 season prevented him from leading the team at the Vancouver Paralympics. Per Christensen, previously coach of his Danish national team, took over but failed to improve on the previous year's disappointing performance.
This season Thoralf is back with an increased squad and a full schedule of early season competition.
"We have some exciting new players who I hope will be challenging for team places when we choose the team for the Worlds," he told me.
One change that he doesn't expect to make is at skip, where Rune Lorentsen has had a couple of difficult years.
"Rune has his confidence back," says Hognestad. If that's true, it's bad news for the rest of the world.
Norway will be taking two teams to Denmark this coming weekend, and then are scheduled to travel to Inverness in Scotland in October, and Berne, Switzerland, in November. They'll also be competing in regular local bonspiels.
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