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Frida Karlsson won four medals during the World Ski Championships.
But now she reveals the huge drama ahead of the championship in Planica.
– I have tried to keep this down, says the 23-year-old in P4 Extra.
With a total of four World Cup medals in the form of double World Cup silver and double World Cup bronze Frida Karlsson one of the big blue-yellow heroes during the 2023 World Ski Championships in Planica. But there could have been no championship at all if she hadn’t had luck on her side.
Karlsson’s accident
For now, the 23-year-old reveals that she was involved in a serious car accident – which she chose not to tell about until now.
– I don’t know if I’m clumsy or something, but things are always happening around me. I succeed, before the last World Cup before the WC, in the last event, five days before that competition I also crashed the car, the Swedish ski star tells P4 Extra.
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It seems to have been a fairly serious car crash with two cars involved.
– The cars were scrapped. The man I crashed into was a bit annoyed because he was going to sell his car the next day, Frida admits in the radio interview.
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Frida admits
Karlsson has chosen not to talk about this accident, which could have cost her participation in this year’s World Ski Championships or something even worse.
– I have tried to keep this down. It is my fault in the collision and I am responsible for it. It was clumsy, and I get a bit of a neck and maybe a slight concussion which makes me have a really bad last race before the World Cup, I turn eleven and have a bad pre-camp before the World Cup and really go into the World Cup with very low expectations, she says in the interview.
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When Frida Karlsson joined the rest of the national skiing team for the world championships in Slovenia, she still felt good despite the circumstances.
– I felt good, it was only before that I thought: “I feel really pissed off when I ride, does it even make sense?”, that’s kind of how I felt when I got to the WC, she says to the radio channel.
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