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Ebba Andersson is angry at people without sense.
She points to a major problem that several Norwegian and Swedish cross-country skiers have previously noticed.
– I think it’s completely idiotic, she says to Nettavisen.
It has been a difficult start to the season for the Swedish cross-country star Ebba Andersson27. She hasn’t landed a podium yet in either the World Cup or the Tour de Ski, which is of course worrying ahead of the World Ski Championships which take place in Trondheim, Norway, in less than two months.
Ebba Andersson rages against the phenomenon
When she is not standing on a pair of skis in a track herself, she likes to talk about skiing in various contexts. Now the Norwegian Nettavisen has asked her about a hot topic of discussion that has caused many skaters to go to the roof. It’s about people who are out and about on newly groomed tracks and sabs for the skiers. It is a subject that Norwegians are very passionate about and that receives media attention every winter.
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Ebba Andersson now joins the debate and rages against people who walk in normal shoes in the cross-country tracks.
– I think it is completely idiotic. There is a road to walk on or a footpath. Ski tracks are for skiing. I think you are very welcome if you have skis on your feet, but if you don’t you have to be somewhere else, she tells Nettavisen.
Moa Ilar’s sick incident on the ski trail
She goes on to say that she has met people who walk the trails at home in Sweden, but that it is an even bigger problem in Norway, where the ski trails are closer to cities and towns than in Sweden. Her national team mate Moa Ilar agree with her.
– It’s sad that people go there and destroy, but I think it’s about knowledge, she tells Nettavisen.
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Ilar has also met people who destroyed pistes by walking right over them. But the sickest thing was when she met someone who was out riding a horse in the tracks.
– It was a bit of a shock and we felt that it was not very appropriate, but we were told that it was not allowed to go there. It worked out. You can meet anything on the ski track, says Moa Ilar.
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