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Suddenly, there was great chaos in the Swedish national skiing team.
But no one wanted to tell what really happened.
Now WC gold hero Ebba Andersson comes forward and breaks the silence.
It was a month ago that the Swedish national ski team gathered for a training camp in Torsby. But after just a few days, they were forced to make a shocking decision and cancel the entire national team meeting.
Ebba admits
Suddenly, six riders had become ill that morning and great chaos broke out. Everyone got to go home, but the Swedish national team management refused to reveal which cross-country skiers actually got sick.
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Now the national team star enters Ebba Andersson comes forward and breaks the silence by admitting that she was one of the six riders who fell ill in Torsby.
– You have realized that it is part of elite sport that things can come up, so you have to try to handle it as well as you can and work on from that, says Ebba in an interview with SVT.
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Andersson’s goal
However, Andersson does not know why the Swedish national ski team has kept it a secret who got sick. But that is not the only setback she has experienced this summer, she has also suffered from an infection in her stomach.
– It is still a bit unclear exactly what it was. What I do know is that it was some kind of infection linked to regions of the stomach. It affected me quite a lot for a period of time. But as soon as it was good, it was as if it disappeared as quickly as it appeared, she tells the TV channel.
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The Swedish WC queen who won double gold medals in Planica is now looking ahead to the coming season and the goal is clear. When a championship-free season awaits, she sets her sights on the classic Tour de Ski, which she was forced to give up due to covid-19 last time.
– I feel that the overall World Cup must become a goal in the course of time, but now my big goal is the Tour de Ski. I’ve been third once and second once, but never won. It would have been great to be the third Swedish girl to win the tour, she says in the interview.
– That makes it trigger me a little extra and motivates me to have it as a stated goal.
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