When national team manager Anders Byström announced next season’s national team squad, Moa Lundgren was missing.
Despite having the best season of her career, she was kicked from the A team and instead got a place in what she herself calls the B team (Team Bauhaus). She has chosen to decline that position.
How has the dialogue with Byström been?
– OK. We don’t completely agree, period. I think I rode well enough that I deserve a place, she says and develops her reasoning in the clip above.
The squad on the women’s side is unchanged from last year and with stiff competition it is not easy to break through. But the number of troops is something that Moa Lundgren is critical of.
“In a way nice”
– There is no rule on how many people can be in an A team. For another year, we might have several who were fourth, fifth or sixth in finals, shouldn’t we bring them then? If you think a year ahead, I don’t think we will have less good skaters. I think you have to start thinking about how to create a new place, why not have nine ladies and seven gentlemen?
Now she will instead move on and for the first time test her own set-up with her personal trainer Lars Ljung and boyfriend Gustav Kvarnbrink, also a skier.
– A desire to do this has developed, in this way it has been nice not to get a place in the A team, it has made it easier to make the decision. It sucks not being with the girls, but being fully responsible for myself feels tempting.