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Maja Dahlqvist is at the national team camp in Val Senales – without her best friend.
Now Frida Karlsson has asked her to do something so that it at least feels like they are together.
In a comment on Instagram, she shows the whole world what she really wants.
Exactly one week ago sounded Frida Karlsson25, announced that she is being forced to sit out the national team’s training week in Italy’s Val Senales due to a foot injury.
– The body did not respond as I wanted after the first sessions on snow in Vålådalen, and we realized that skiing is a long way off for me, she said in a press release.
Sticks to the bike
Instead of traveling away with her national team mates, she has flown to Tenerife where she now has her own small rehab camp. She sits on a bicycle all day long to keep in shape. It is still unclear when she can be good enough in her foot to be able to train as usual again.
– That is what is difficult about being injured. You can’t make a long-term plan, I have to take it day by day. I am in constant contact with my physio at home. We want to see that it goes in the right direction all the time and before I feel zero symptoms we will stick to the cycle. Hopefully, I will get a strike at the end of the time here, she said recently at a digital press conference.
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Frida’s own goal is that she should be able to be back for the Sweden premiere in Bruksvallarna (November 22-24) or at least for the World Cup premiere in Finnish Ruka the following week.
– I try to take the whole situation in stride and follow the development around this injury. I won’t be able to get that much skiing in before the season starts, I know that. I hope that I am “fit for fight” for Bruksvallarna, but I know in any case that I will have to switch into this season, she said.
Maja asked for a favor
One who follows the development of Frida’s injury and of course hopes that it heals as it should is the best friend, also the national team star, Maja Dahlqvist. The 30-year-old has so far not had much contact with Karlsson, but she is sure that she will come back stronger.
– The last time I met her was in Vålådalen, when we were on snow a week or so ago. Then she went to Tenerife right after that, so it’s probably been mostly contact on Snapchat and I think it was the right choice to make what she’s doing now. To take it a little day by day and take it step by step. As long as she is injury-free, she will ride really fast, says Maja Dahlqvist to Sportbibeln and continues:
– She’s pretty good at seeing what she has to do and gets motivated by having a plan and going for something, so I think she’s there now. I hope so anyway.
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Maja is currently at the camp in Val Senales with some other Swedish skiers. When she posted a clip on Instagram, showing off the snow-filled tracks on which they slide, Frida immediately commented on the video and asked her bestie for a favor.
“Put me on the link pls”, she writes, meaning that Maja should call her.
Maybe she simply wanted to catch a glimpse of how nice and pleasant Maja and the others were out in the sun in the Alps? Did she want to make it feel like she was there with them? We’ll probably never find out. But she probably just wanted a little break in her own rehab training for a while.
Good luck with the new season both Maja and Frida. I hope you stay healthy in the future and that your body responds to the training in the right way.
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