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The ski world is about to change for all time.
Now Sweden and Norway can compete together for the first time.
Then both William Poromaa and Frida Karlsson are paired together.
Over the weekend came the controversial message that can change the sport of cross -country skiing for all time. Then the International Ski Federation, FIS, announced that new rules for the World Cup were introduced.
Sweden won the relay
During this weekend’s World Cup competition in Swiss Engadin, the season’s only mixed relay took place. It took Sweden home after impressive skiing of Jens BurmanThe Emma RibomThe Edvin Anger and Moa Ilar.
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But new for this season is that the nations are allowed to assemble relay teams with riders from different countries.
– If a nation has a full first team and has a rider over, then you can go together with another nation and form a joint second team. It was not possible last season, says the competition manager Michal Lamplot in a statement to Expressen.
– This is the only rule change we have made for the season. We hope that it will make more relay teams start.
Want to go with Frida
In the past, combined teams between the nations have only been allowed as the first team, to help less nations get to the starting line. But this opens up for a mixed relay team for both Sweden and Norway.
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One that really gets started on this idea is the Norwegian veteran Emil Iversen.
– I could have imagined driving with Sweden! It would have been fun!, He tells the evening newspaper and builds his own dream team.
– Me, Frida Karlsson, William Poromaa and Heidi Weng could be a team? Then we have two previous love couples who go together. It would have been really exciting!
Swedish ski stars Frida Karlsson and William Poromaa Had a long time a love relationship, but they ended in the winter of 2022. The latter now gives their clear answer after the Norwegian flirt.
– It’s good to play with death. Then you would rather be over, says Poromaa in a statement.
– No, it would be shady. It feels like a damn weird thing, says too Edvin Anger About to compete with Norwegians.
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