Olympiatoppen is an organisation that is part ofNorwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports with responsibility for trainingNorwegian elite sport. Olympiatoppen is based at theToppidrettssenteret betweenNorwegian School of Sport Sciences andSognsvann. The leader of Olympiatoppen isTore Øvrebø.
Central is the idea ofcoaches for priority sports. Thesecoaches areJohan Kaggestad for strength sports, together withAtle Kvålsvoll andRoger Gjedsvik,Michael Jørgensen for technical sports, andMarit Breivik andTorgeir Bryn for team sports. Thecoaches follow up the ports attend team activities, events and take a role in the optimising of opportunities to lead. The national team coaches work together with Olympiatoppen'scoaches.
Different sports have benefitted in different ways from working with the organisation, and it gives practical help to the Norwegian team inOlympic sports.
Olympiatoppen also has its own clinic and training facilities. This has an area where Norway's top athletes can be trained and help to develop new sporting technology.
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