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Jonna Sundling has taken seven World Cup gold and is the world’s best sprint rider.
But she will not be able to compete in cross-country skiing forever-now the 30-year-old tells what she would like to do in the future.
– We’ll see what it gets, she tells the Sports Bible.
After the success of the Trondheim World Cup, where she took three golds and one bronze, have Jonna Sundling Now tangled Gunde tail Old record in number of World Cup gold. At three world championships, she has accumulated all seven golds.
Jonna can compete for many years to
When the World Cup at home in Falun takes place in two years, she is 32 years old. She could certainly continue for a few more years after that. In other words, she is able to pick even more medals at the World Cup and the Olympics.
– I say to myself now: “I’ll keep going as long as I think it’s fun”. And as long as I feel I have development potential. Then I want to continue, she recently said in the SVT program “Kallprat”.
“I hope I can last for many more years, it feels like I have a few years left,” she said too.
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Before the ski World Cup in Trondheim, the sports bible Jonna Sundling asked what she would like to do if she was not a professional skier.
– I’ve been thinking about what I would like to be after skiing, what I would like to do. I don’t really know, we’ll see that, she says.
Jonna Sundling’s future dream profession
She says that skiing came so naturally to her as a child. Admittedly, there were other sports to try out in Tvärålund (Vindeln municipality outside Umeå) where she comes from, but Jonna Sundling would have liked to test something else in young days.
– When I was younger, I thought it would have been fun to test gymnastics, but we didn’t have it in the village I come from or nearby. That’s why I never tested. Same with athletics, so maybe one of it.
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After a while, on the other hand, she comes up with what she would actually like to do the day she puts the skis on the shelf and goes into “pension” as an elite athlete. It is a very noble and sympathetic dream profession that she is in.
– I’ve kind of been to a nurse, because I like to help others. But we’ll see what it gets, she says.
Thanks for the entertainment, Jonna! You were absolutely incredible in the World Cup and really showed all the Norwegians where the cabinet should stand. Continue to be who you are and give the iron.
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