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Gunde Svan is one of our biggest skiing heroes ever.
Now he is making a comeback on the ski slopes again after many years of hiatus.
Gunde takes on a crazy mission that will be televised.
There is no doubt that Gunde Swan is one of Sweden’s top skiers of all time. He can easily prove it by holding up his four Olympic golds and seven World Cup golds, add to that he won the World Cup five times during his career.
Gunde Svan’s career
Gunde ended his successful career in 1991 and hung up his skis on the famous shelf. After that, the sports icon has done a lot in his life, he started driving rallycross and won both SM gold and EC bronze, he has been the host of “The prisoners at the fort”, “Gladiators”, “Nothing is impossible”, “Bingolotto” , “In the head of Gunde Svan”, “Sweden against Norway” and even competed in “Let’s Dance”.
In 2007, Gunde Svan returned to the skis again and became team leader for the Swedish national ski team. The following year, he also took over as Swedish national cross-country ski captain until 2009.
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But since then, we have mostly seen him in various TV programs, most recently in “Kompani Svan”. Now everyone’s favorite Gunde returns to the ski slopes again.
Gunde to the ski tracks
SVT is currently filming a new TV series called “Mot alla odds – Stafetten”, in which the skiing legend gets a major role. Namely, Svan will teach the celebrities Philip Dikmen, Samir Badran, Junior Lerin, Linda Pira and Kaeli Abdi to ski before the Vasaloppet 2025.
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None of them have skied before but will now get expert help from Gunde.
– I want to learn it as part of Swedish culture. It wasn’t my thing, but I want to learn. It is very fun and exciting to learn something new, but it was not so easy for me who is used to walking without snow on my feet. It was very exciting! says Manoel Marques Lerinbetter known as “Junior”, to the local newspaper NWT.
– We trained a few days a week ago at Idre fjäll. Now I come forward and I dare to learn. I fell a lot and it is still very difficult, but I will try to make my way to the Vasaloppet. I fight very hard!
The participants have so far only met for one camp in Idre Fjäll. Then the television viewers will be able to follow their journey to the final goal, which is a relay race at the Vasaloppet. The TV program premieres February 2 on SVT and will be shown in five episodes.
– It will be a bit like a reality show. We live in the same house, we talk to each other and a lot of things happen. They haven’t skied before either, says Junior Lerin in the interview.
– We divide it up, like a relay. My part I think is almost two miles. When they first told me about the Vasaloppet, I knew nothing about it. It was completely new to me, it wasn’t something I had thought about before.
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