Jonna Sundling’s clear words – strike back against the Swedish people’s image of her: “It’s completely wrong”

She is one of the world’s best skiers.
But Jonna Sundling lives a life far from glamour.
– Then you have the wrong picture, says the star.

Jonna Sundling is one of Sweden’s great, active athletes, with smash success in almost every major championship in recent years. This season may not have been what Sundling had hoped for, as Linn Svahn was the big star in sprints, but her result at the WC and Olympics speaks for itself.

Now striking back

With his four World Cup golds and one Olympic gold, Sundling is not only one of our great active skiers, but actually one of Sweden’s greatest winter athletes of all time. But despite her status in Swedish sports, Sundling lives, according to her own statement, a life that is far from luxurious and from any kind of glamour.

On Tuesday, Sundling participated in a chat with Expressen’s readers, and she then received a question about what happens during a race day, and the television cameras are not there filming. Sundling fights back against the image that exists of her living a life of luxury during the competition weeks around Europe.

– Is that how people think about us? Then you have the wrong picture. Ski life is not always so glamorous. As a viewer, you get to see a very funny image when you compete, but all around when we are sitting on the bus with underwear and wet socks… nobody sees it, she says.

“I enjoy it”

Jonna Sundling believes that she wouldn’t have wanted it any other way either, and living a life of luxury, and being served too much, might not be for her.

– I enjoy it! It doesn’t bother me. It would have felt weirder if we had been fed grapes on the bus, she says.

Jonna Sundling is in Davos when she answers readers’ questions, but once there she shares a room, and sleeps in a bunk bed, with Ebba Andersson. It’s because the beds are so small, so the shortest in the team had to take the room.

– We enjoy our little bunk bed. We had to take this room because we were the shortest, but it didn’t matter. We still wanted the room so it’s a good atmosphere, says Sundling.