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They have really become piff and puff in the skiing team.
Now Emma Ribom and Jonna Sundling talk about their close relationship.
– I’ve been more with Emma than with my own partner, Jonna admits in the podcast “Winter Pass”.
They got to know each other during the pandemic year 2020 through an isolation at the World Cup in North America. Since then, has Jonna Sundling and Emma Ribom been inseparable and become a real super duo in the Swedish skiing team.
Ribom about Sundling
The blue -yellow radar pair always shares rooms during national team collections and competitions, which is why they have come very close to each other in recent years.
– It was probably the fear of the pandemic, every morning we both woke up equally stressed and panicked. This is where we found each other, in the stress and fear, Emma says when she visits Jonna’s own pod “Winter Pass”.
– We have talked about it, that I have been more days with Emma than with my own partner at home. Then it is obviously very important that you get along well and know where you have each other, when you spend so much time together, says Jonna.
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But what is it like to live with one of the world’s best skiers in Jonna Sundling. Emma Ribom now gives the answer to that question.
– Jonna often has very good order. It may be because she has lived with Charlotte (cold) for many years. She always had such order and find out everything. But overall Jonna has very good order, says Emma and continues:
– And it is usually Jonna who gets the best bed, regardless of who can choose first. But once she got to sleep on the couch and then I had a very bad conscience for two weeks, because she slept poorly every night.
– In the end, I started to say that slept well, although I didn’t really do it. But it probably didn’t depend on the couch …, Jonna says with a laugh.
Jonna about Emma
Ribom also does his best to decorate the hotel rooms with a personal touch.
– Emma always has Christmas decorations and light trails with her. She is good at taking stuff with her so that it feels like home, says Sundling in the pod.
– Yes, I’m good at spiceing up my rooms to make it homely. Some pictures from home that can make a happy, such small things, Emma replies.
– We also usually furnish the rooms we live on. We don’t really want to sleep close to each other so we move the beds. It will be a little fun, like a project, Jonna admits.
– This is the first thing we do when we enter a room, then we immediately think how to do it, says Emma.
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Sundling and Ribom’s biggest triumph were together during the ski World Cup 2023 in Planica. Together they won the World Cup gold in the team sprint and individually it became both World Cup gold and World Cup silver in the individual sprint.
– We always have a lot of fun together and sometimes maybe for fun. But we are very similar on many levels and it is quite easy. We are very easy to laugh and it is important when we are so much away, says Emma and Jonna about their close relationship.
– We are very busy with the others too. We can move bonds on the skis that are in the corridor and it is usually the same people who happen to it. Everyone also knows that we are doing it.
They are there for each other both during the happy moments but even if the results go against, they support each other.
– It feels like the more time we have had with each other, you have figured out each other and gained an understanding of how the other feels. Which makes it easier to help each other and even learn from each other. And that you dare to talk about a little tougher things, they say in the podcast.
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