This pretty odd 2020 season is over. Time to select the Swiss Team for the next season. The end of October the Junior Teams were appointed and now this weekend the Senior Teams.
A season with very few national competitions and no international competitions at all can hardly provide big surprises but rather the confirmation of ongoing trends.
Overview over the Swiss National Team 1999-2021
Figure of the year
With the retirement of Julia Jakob aka Gross, the A-Team shrinks down to a number of eight athletes. That's five less than five years ago (-Rahel Friederich, - Sara Lüscher, - Judith Wyder, - Julia Jakob, (- Sarina Kyburz aka Jenzer), -Baptiste Rollier, -Fabian Hertner, -Andreas Kyburz, + Simona Aebersold, + Joey Hadorn +Elena Roos)
Also notable are the drop-outs of the former U23-athletes Valerie Aebischer, Thomas Curiger and Florian Schneider after this season (Flos is not done yet). Besides Curiger and Schneider, Egger and Hellmüller add to the group of former U23 overdue to make the step to the A. At the womens side there is only Sofie Bachmann left on schedule from the former U23 group (Aebischer, S.Müller, S.Tommer).
At the same time we see a rising number of athletes in the B-Team. Thus it seems we have now a generation somehow struggling with breaking through. Might well be that this lost season was just delaying the next steps from Gross, Egger, Pezatti, Buchs & co.
Time will tell.
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