Linn Svahn is in top form for the upcoming season.
Now the star has become a smash hit – in the wrong sport.
Linn Svahn is coming off a truly fabulous season, but it was far from obvious that it would be like that. It was in February 2021 that Svahn fell before the World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, and few could then imagine what pure injury hell awaited Svahn.
Fantastic winter
It would turn out that the serious shoulder injury would ruin the next two years for her, and in total she had two WCs and one Olympics ruined due to the injury, which she sustained during a competition in Ulricehamn. It wasn’t until last winter that Svahn was back in earnest – and she said so with certainty, to say the least.
Linn Svahn took the first World Cup win in over 1,000 days at the Tour de Ski, and then it was a show for the rest of the season. Svahn won the overall Sprint Cup and was second in the overall World Cup, and she enters next season, where the WC in Trondheim awaits, as the skier to beat in the sprint, in tough competition with Jonna Sundling and the Norwegian Kristine Stavås Skistad. Now Svahn is in hard training for the coming season, and there certainly seems to be nothing wrong with his form.
Success in the wrong sport
Earlier in July, it was announced that Svahn is making a bet in the wrong sport. The Lidingö Race arranged a long-distance race in the mountains, where Svahn announced that she would run. This weekend was the time, and it cannot be summed up in any other way than that it was a great success for the sprint star. The course, which crossed classic mountain terrain, suited Svahn like a glove, and she even ended up on the podium.
Svahn competed in the 20-kilometer race, and although skiing is her expertise, she finished in a very respectable second place. Svahn was also not the only skier who did well, as men’s national team skier Johan Häggström finished third, also in the 20 kilometer class.
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