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Can Jonna Sundling find the form for the Tour de Ski?
Ski star’s coach Magnus Ingesson is getting worried.
– It can take three to four weeks. Covid can leave its mark. For some, it can take up to three months, says Ingesson and lowers expectations for her comeback.
The day after the World Cup premiere in Ruka at the end of November, the news came that Jonna Sundling fell ill with covid-19. The Olympic and World Cup gold medalist also had more severe symptoms than his national team colleagues who fell ill at the same time.
Sundling back
Sundling has started training and on Thursday she does a test to see the status of her body. It is done by roller skiing on a conveyor belt.
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Not maximum tempo, but through threshold levels in tempo.
– Then we get values where she is right now and get black and white where we have her. If it’s bad, the highest level won’t be good either, he says Magnus Ingesson.
Missing the World Cup
Sundling forgoes this weekend’s World Cup competitions in Trondheim to ensure a start in the Tour de Ski, which is the highlight of the season as there is no major championship this winter.
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The tour begins in Italy on December 30.
– We want to hurry slowly considering that she had a rather serious illness with the covid. It is important to be a little careful in the beginning. Experience from the past shows that driving too hard after a covid is rarely good, says Ingesson.
Jonna’s feelings
At the same time, he wants to lower expectations for Jonna Sundling when she makes her comeback. The road to the fitness level she had before the disease can be long.
– It can take three to four weeks. Covid can leave its mark. Then we don’t know what the consequences of the covid will be, if there are completely different consequences than expected. These are completely different parameters than a common cold. Covid can leave its mark on some. It can take up to three months. It depends on what kind of person you are, says Magnus Ingesson and continues:
– We won’t know until we are there (Tour de Ski) what level she is at. Hopefully it will go well. It feels good for her to exercise. Better than she thought.
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It is the third year in a row that Jonna Sundling has had the start of the season ruined by injury or illness.
– She was a little sad and a little frustrated. Once you get her to focus on what she’s supposed to, it usually goes pretty well. But it is clear that it eats away. It was a shame and above all it was a shame that she missed the home competition in Östersund.
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