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The Swedish national ski team is taking a few days off.
So the blue-yellow skiers can celebrate Christmas with their families.
Now Ebba Andersson, Linn Svahn and Jonna Sundling and others reveal how they will celebrate Christmas.
The World Cup for cross-country skiing has taken a few days off before the Tour de Ski, which starts on December 28. Then our Swedish national team stars take the opportunity to treat themselves to much-needed time off and celebrate Christmas with their respective ones.
The skiers celebrate Christmas
The start of the season has been very demanding with three World Cup weekends in a short time in three different countries. And many blue-yellow cross-country skiers have been plagued by illness during the first part of the ski season.
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Several have therefore taken time off to spend time with their families and now the national team riders are sharing their Christmas celebrations. And gives answers to which particular Christmas tradition is most sacred to them.
– It’s good to be with the family. I wasn’t that last year, it was probably the worst Christmas ever. We don’t have that many traditions, it’s probably more about being with each other, says Johanna Hagström in an interview with Dagens Nyheter.
– Now I don’t celebrate Christmas at home and haven’t for several years. But I love Christmas! Above all, to be at home with grandma and grandpa or grandma and grandpa. Getting to eat their food and spend time with the family, says the sprint dominant Jonna Sundling.
Linn Svahn’s Christmas
For Calle Halfvarsson is it especially important to be with the family at Christmas because “it’s tradition for me. Then it’s clear that it’s nice to be in a place where it’s winter too. Otherwise, you don’t get a real Christmas feeling”. While Edwin Anger most start on Donald Duck: “You’ve seen it since you were zero years old and it’s on TV every Christmas. It is sacred. And the Christmas candy! Color, Santa Claus and such”
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While others prioritize skiing especially.
– Last year I don’t even think I noticed it was Christmas. I stay in my bubble so much. Are you even home during Christmas? But okay, it’s like I go skiing every Christmas. That must be it then!, says Lynn Svahn to the daily newspaper.
– Skiing on Christmas Eve, that’s part of it. I always want to be free in the afternoon but ski in the morning. It can be high or low intensity, but it should preferably be at home in Sollefteå with mum and dad. In recent years, I have spent a number of Christmases in other places and have noticed that I don’t really get that Christmas feeling then, says Ebba Andersson.
For someone like that William Poromaa he is most looking forward to being home because he has been away many other years: “It has become a bit that I have unfortunately been away for the last few Christmases, at high altitude in the Alps. Therefore, I would really say to just be at home with the family. It is the best”. Emma Ribom however, find it difficult to lie on the lazy side during the Christmas holiday.
– My recent Christmases have certainly not been traditional! But I would probably say a training session. We either play hockey or go skiing. That’s it, she tells DN and explains why it will be hockey on Christmas Eve.
– With the family, on a rink and play a little. But in recent years I haven’t been home for Christmas. Then it has been easiest to go out and do some skiing.
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