Swedish Indoors

[EPelle]

Triple Jump:

C. Olsson: 17,25m
13,71 16,86 17,14 17,16 17,25 17,14

Pole Vault:

1. O. Jansson: 5,58m
5,37 (1) 5,51 (3) 5,58 (1) 5,77 (xxx)

2. Kristiansson: 5,51m
5,51 (2) 5,65 (xxx)

Womens 60m Heats

J Kallur 7,34Q H1
Klüft 7,49Q H3

Womens 60m Final

1. J Kallur 7,33PR
3. C Klüft 7,46PR

Womens Long Jump

Heats:

Klüft 5,85Q
Foul, 5,85, pass

Final:

1. Klüft 6,40
6,22 6,32 6,36 x 6,40 6,19

Mens 3,000m

1. Erik Sjöqvist 7.56,99 (13.23 5k best)


STEFAN HOLM JUMPING TODAY. Should see good battle between Rizak Dirshe (1.45 outdoors last season) and Rickard Pell (1.46 outdoors), with Pell 1.49,54 fastest qualifier from Friday night.

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

From Aftonbladet:

Olsson feels he has a virus in his body, and attributes that to his performance yesterday in Göteborg - along with competing twice in three days last week. Is reducing heavy weight and strength training. Didn t feel fresh.

Next competing on Wednesday in Tallin and then at home in Monaco.

18,00m record is close... feels he should get it this summer.

Klüft said she is not yet in top form, but it fits her that eveyone thinks she is out of form. She stated she knows how she should jump, but hasn t exactly nailed the approach just yet. She doesn t feel she is jumping easily or with speed just yet. Doesn t want "favorite" role heading into the Indoor WCs.

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

Johan Wissman: 20,66 NR in the 200m. Ran incredibly smart from lane 3 and took nearly .10 off his own indoor NR.

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

Holm attempts at 2,35m -- narrowly missing on his third. Wins at 2,31m, his 60th career meet over 2,30m.

Results:
http://www.gfif.se/ism/resultat.htm

[The Kitchen Cynic]

Re: Swedish Indoors

>From Aftonbladet:
Olsson . . . Next competing on Wednesday in Tallin and then at home in Monaco.<


Why would a Swede make Monaco his home?

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

Same reason a lot of others do: No taxes. Bergqvist is there, too.

[The Kitchen Cynic]

Re: Swedish Indoors

>Same reason a lot of others do: No taxes. Bergqvist is there, too.<

And how do you, as a tax-paying Swede, feel about that?

[gh]

Re: Swedish Indoors

I seem to remember a story from 10-20 years ago about a famous Swedish journalist who had left the country because (and please correct me if the numbers are wrong; this could be urban myth) the tax for that year was somehting like 110% (more than 100) of the GROSS salary. Any truth to that?

[Guest]

Re: Swedish Indoors

Yeah, taxes are high (egh's # is probably wrong [or urban legend]) but social services are also high. My sister-in-law is Swedish, she and my brother spend half the year outside Stockholm, half in south Florida (correct halves). They are very high on the quatlity of medical care they get in Sweden. I think compared with none here in the US. Quite a few high income people opt for such residences of convenience, but I guess that you have to be careful not to spend too much time in the "real" home. Cases in point, the tax difficuties of Stefi Graf (tennis, not 800m) and Boris Becker are having or have had in Germany.

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

I pay 33% of my income direct to taxes - including taxes to the Swedish church (no separation of church/state here). Notice that Sjöberg lives in Brazil, Bergqvist and Olsson live in Monaco, and even Ljudmila Engqvist has moved outside of Sweden. Other tennis stars have made their homes in Monaco as well.

I don t mind them moving away so long as they do not receive any social benefits above what they have already payed into when they return later.

[John Maynard Keynes]

Re: Swedish Indoors

>I seem to remember a story from 10-20 years ago about a famous Swedish journalist who had left the country because (and please correct me if the numbers are wrong; this could be urban myth) the tax for that year was somehting like 110% (more than 100) of the GROSS salary. Any truth to that?<

I think you've just re-defined hyperbole.

[miler monkey]

Re: Swedish Indoors

>I pay 33% of my income direct to taxes - including taxes to the Swedish church
>(no separation of church/state here).

33% in taxes is all???? We pay much more here in the U.S. -- Social Security alone is 7% (really 15% since employers consider their portion a cost of employing someone). Have any U.S. track or individual athletes made Monaco their base? (Or do Swedes really pay more than 33% . . .)

[Pego]

Re: Swedish Indoors

<and even Ljudmila Engqvist has moved outside of Sweden>

I just love it. The country adopts you and you turn around and stab it in the back. This is an immigrant talking!

[EPelle]

Re: Swedish Indoors

The more money you make here in Sweden - as is probably the case in many other countries - the more is paid directly to taxes, education, welfare, social services.

Again, I don t mind that these athletes don t live here in Sweden and still represent Sweden on the world stage - as long as they don t move back here and expect the same social rewards as everyone else who has payed into the system.

[basis]

Re: Swedish Indoors

>33% in taxes is all???? We >pay much more here >in the U.S. -- Social Security alone is 7%
>(really 15% since employers consider their >portion a cost of employing someone). Have any >U.S. track or individual athletes made Monaco >their base? (Or do Swedes really pay
>more than 33% . . .)

I pay around 45-50% in taxes myself. I have around 55000-60000 USD in yearly income.