Cross-country skiing : “A great day” for Frida Karlsson
Frida Karlsson dominated the classic mass-start of the cross-country skiing World Cup stage in Les Rousses (Jura). She crossed the finish line 1.29 seconds ahead of her compatriot Ebba Andersson. She immediately appeared smiling, as if she had already digested more than 55 minutes of effort. Yes, it was a great day today,” said the Swede in the mixed zone. We did the double, we had great skis and I felt really good today.
While her rivals described the track as really difficult, with even the downhills requiring concentration, Frida Karlsson was visibly able to complete one lap after another, as if she were floating on cloud nine. ” I could feel all the energy in my body wanting to get out,” she says. So much so that she immediately set a pace that quickly widened the gaps in the caravan of cross-country skiers. As she says, she skied “at full speed from the start”.
The cheers of the many spectators also buoyed her up during the race, which was bathed in beautiful winter sunshine. “The French crowd was incredible. Yes, it was really good. They’re noisy, but I like that.” The screams had at least one advantage, she joked: “I couldn’t hear my fatigue, so it was perfect.”
Read also
- Cross-country skiing | Les Rousses: Flora Dolci in the top 20, victory for an imperious Frida Karlsson in the mass start classic
- Cross-country skiing | Thibaut Chêne assesses his athletes’ classic sprint in Les Rousses: “We wanted to do well”.
- Cross-country skiing | Les Rousses: “I wanted to win the race, it was close”, says Jonna Sundling after her third place in the classic sprint
- Cross-country skiing | “It’s more frustrating than disappointing”: the reaction of Léonie Besson, quarter-finalist in the classic sprint in Les Rousses on her first World Cup.
- Cross-country skiing | “I have no regrets because I gave it my all”: Lucas Chanavat has mixed feelings after finishing sixth in the classic sprint at Les Rousses
- At Les Rousses, Renaud Jay gets back on his feet
- Les Rousses: Lucas Chanavat sixth, Edvin Anger wins the classic sprint
- Cross-country skiing | Les Rousses: Kristine Staavas Skistad wins the classic sprint
- Cross-country skiing | Les Rousses: Lucas Chanavat second in classic sprint qualifying behind Ben Ogden, four other French qualifiers
- Les Rousses: Friedrich Moch hopes for revenge in Sunday’s mass start classic
- Les Rousses: “I was feeling better and better with every lap,” says Victoria Carl after finishing second in the individual skateboard race
- “I’m expecting a really great atmosphere, it’s going to be incredible”: Rémi Bourdin’s enthusiasm on the morning of the classic World Cup sprint in Les Rousses
- Back on the podium in Les Rousses, Paal Golberg is smiling again after a start to the winter that was far from his expectations: “It’s difficult to be a skier in Norway”.
- “I love this race in France and I’m really proud to have performed here”: in the individual skateboard race, Ben Ogden claimed his first podium in a distance race in Les Rousses.
- “I think I was a bit nervous before the start”: Frida Karlsson speaks after the individual skate race in Les Rousses
- “I’m a bit disappointed because I wanted to be on the podium”: eleventh in Les Rousses after being ill, Flora Dolci was hoping for better in the individual skateboard event
- Les Rousses: Austrians Mika Vermeulen and Teresa Stadlober “satisfied” with their individual performance
- Les Rousses: Jessie Diggins wins the individual skateboard event, Flora Dolci the best French skater
- Les Rousses: “We’re getting our ears broken and that’s a pleasure”, Jules Lapierre made his return to the top 10 in the individual skateboard event
- Les Rousses: “I knew I could do it,” says Victor Lovera, best Frenchman in the individual event
- Les Rousses: Iver Tildheim Andersen wins the individual skateboard, Victor Lovera best Frenchman
- “It’s a playful track”, “It’s going to bring more spectacle”: what the French clan thinks of the changes to the Les Rousses route
- Les Rousses: the photo album of the pre-race training sessions
- Les Rousses: the Tuffes stadium prepares for the World Cup
- The Austrians arrive in force at Les Rousses
- In the end, Linn Svahn will not be coming to Les Rousses
- Les Rousses World Cup: the spectator’s guide
- Les Rousses: “I think it’s going to be a good weekend,” says Edvin Anger for Nordic Magazine
- Germany present in numbers and with its headliners in Les Rousses
- Les Rousses: Mattis Stenhagen will not start the individual skateboard race, Astrid Oeyre Slind replaced by Hedda Bakkemo in the classic sprint.
