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Therese Johaug can make a comeback in the tracks again.
The question is what it means for the sport if the Norwegian skiing queen returns.
Now TV profile Johanna Ojala says what no one has thought of.
The World Cup season is coming to an end and only one competition weekend remains on Swedish soil in Falun. After that, the big talking ice in the skiing world will take over even more – coming Therese Johaug make a comeback?
Johaug’s comeback
Many have speculated about it, the Norwegian ski queen is thinking about it right now and next ski season the talk will intensify even more. It has been two years since Johaug ended the successful career that resulted in 14 World Cup golds, 4 Olympic golds and 2 overall World Cup victories.
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Since then, she has had time to experience life’s great miracle and gave birth to a daughter. The Norwegian is back on skis again and is training full time right now, recently she also won an exercise race in Switzerland in superior style.
– I have to admit that it was great fun, says Johaug to VG.
Ojala’s honest words
She herself has admitted that the Ski World Championships 2025 on home ground in Trondheim is attractive and that it is precisely the very first five-mile at a World Championships that can make her compete on the tracks again. Viaplay’s television profile is now available Johanna Ojala into the discussion of Johaug’s comeback plans.
– She is still keen and curious about skiing, says Ojala in an interview with Dagens Nyheter.
– Willingness and curiosity speak for (comeback). She trains a lot and somewhere there must be an ulterior motive. She has also been open that it would be fun and interesting to come back.
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But it is not entirely easy to start training and competing at an elite level after two years of absence. That is why it is so difficult to determine what level Therese Johaug is these days.
– No one knows, not even herself, Ojala tells the daily and reveals the biggest obstacle to the Norwegian’s comeback.
– To get my life together, I would think. Before she only had herself to take care of but now she has a child that needs her attention and time.
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Johanna Ojala is now also saying what no one has thought of. A comeback by 35-year-old Johaug means not only a lot for skiing itself, but much more than that.
– Not only for Norwegian skiing, but above all it would mean a lot for cross-country skiing for women in general. Just to show that life can come, you have children but still come back, that it is a possibility, she tells the daily newspaper.
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