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Charlotte Kalla left Swedish skiing in 2022.
But she is still so incredibly missing in the national team.
Now Jonna Sundling recognizes the emotions with heartbreaking words.
She is one of our country’s foremost ski heroes of all time. Charlotte Kalla Has won three Olympic golds, three World Cup golds and 38 SM golds in cross-country skiing.
Charlotte’s farewell
In 2022 she chose to end her fantastic skiing career and three years later she has been involved in a lot besides skiing. Kalla has written a book, danced pregnant in “Let’s dance”, has become a mother for the first time and is now current as one of the participants in “Masters Champion”.
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But when the skiing World Cup is approaching, she is strongly reminded of the old life as a cross-country skier.
– I remember all the emotions you had with the gang and prepared during the summer and autumn to leave for a championship. It just tingles in the stomach, it’s butterflies, and you are so grateful and happy to be there and make the trip together, she says in the podcast “Winter Pass”.
Sundling about Kalla
Charlotte Kalla makes the pod together with the former national team colleague Jonna Sundling And in the last section they were visited by the national team rider Emma Ribom also. Then all the emotions come back again and Kalla is moved by remembering the fine community they had in the skiing team.
– I have had a long career and there have been good friends who have both come and gone. Then I have been reminded that this is not forever, because I have often taken things and people for granted and I will always meet them in two weeks again. You never say “hello” but “we will see you again” and it will be soon, but suddenly it is not so anymore, says Charlotte in the section.
– It will catch me now, especially when it comes to how long since Emma and I were seen (almost three years). As much as we were together and so much we were away, it was a very intense interaction. It feels a bit strange and sad, it becomes very tangible now. I’m starting to miss you super very much.
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Jonna Sundling also becomes emotional in the pod section and acknowledges how missing Kalla is in the Swedish national team.
– We miss you very much too! I thought it was so boring when you realized that you don’t have Charlotte anymore. She will not be with us anymore. You left a big void behind you and I think that was hard and boring. But at the same time I knew every thing has its time. And you have an incredible career behind you, you needed to go into a new chapter. But the silence was really noticed, Jonna says in the pod.
– There was something on the other side that attracted more, but a big part of the fact that I was thinking about continuing was the incredibly fine community that I wanted to be a part of. But it was not an easy decision to make. As much as I had enjoyed, I would not get anymore after my career. But every thing has its time and all memories I have continued, says Charlotte emotionally.
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