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Charlotte Kalla is really in the limelight right now.
After “Let’s Dance”, two completely new challenges await the Swede.
– It has been a very exciting process, she admits to langd.se.
It has been a year since Charlotte Kalla ended the long and successful career in cross-country skiing. It all started with that amazing breakthrough in 2008 when she took overall victory in the Tour de Ski and it would only get better with the years.
Called career
Kalla has won both Olympic and World Cup gold, became Swedish sports’ best Winter Olympian of all time and broke the record for the most SM gold won. But after the end of her career, she still hasn’t been on the lazy side.
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Recently she reached a very strong second place in the TV4 program “Let’s Dance” and soon she will become a mother for the first time in her life and release her own book. The autobiography “Shame on those who give” is already topping the sales charts despite the book being released in October.
– During his career, the idea of a book has been there. But it was when I did my summer talk last year that I felt there were lots of themes that I wanted to cover in a book. And it has been a very exciting process, says Kalla in an interview with langd.se.
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“Brutally honest”
The book was written together with the long-time DN journalist Johan Esk and Charlotte Kalla admits that she opens up about exactly everything on the pages.
– I have been brutally honest in the book. The book is written in I format; those are my experiences; what I felt and reflected on during my career was the important thing, she tells the ski site.
– Then Johan has had the privilege of talking to people close to me. And when I read the rough texts, I feel that my grandfather would have set up the conversation with me as a ten-year-old in the cattle shed in the way that Johan has described.
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A year after the end of her career, Kalla is clear about what she misses most about cross-country skiing and life as an elite athlete.
– The people in and around the sport, of course. But otherwise it is that it is so obvious to make decisions as an elite athlete. I know that I need this time for my training; and I don’t count on that, she says in the interview and also admits what she misses the least.
– I don’t miss the afternoon sessions when the weather hasn’t really cooperated.
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