Not many people would expect, but then only Polish the icon Justyna Kowalczyk returned to the world championships in Seefeldissä and wants to save country skiing.Justyna Kowalczyk returned unexpectedly to the world championships – as well as the coach that the athlete’s role. AOP

Seefeld MM-the track of the paint area near seething. Although the medals located in Sweden, slovenia and Norway in the women’s pair sprint teams exported the interview to another, thrives in one of the skier mass media front perhaps medalists even longer.

Actually understand it. He is in his career reached such a amount of value of the metal that for the most part can only dream of such a thing. 13 the value of race medals, two gold in the olympic than the MM-level from and four world cup overall competition to win the top.

I understood it that way, too, that the woman is completely unexpectedly made the 36-year-old return to the WORLD cross-country trails, although the world cup return is no longer even in mind. The reason is the love of skiing – more specifically, the love of Polish skiing.

, one of the all time distanssi national ski, is now come back by the mission, whose goal is to make Poland once again a great.

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Justyna Kowalczyk snatched the Liberec WORLD ski tracks from the two gold in 2009. AOPTehtävä in Poland

it Was really nice! I feel that I have great control on. Maybe my level is slightly weakened, Kowalczyk reflect.

Kowalczyk is sure to ski as far away from the best day, but he’s not Seefeldissä no longer for themselves. He is in Austria coaching and to guide the country’s future hope – just as the youth world championships in lahti, too.

a Good example of kowalczyk’s a couple of messages a couple, only 17-year-old Monika Skinder . Skinderistä came to the Bay sprint silver, first Polish then Kowalczyk, who has won a junior world medal. It tells you that the task has started fine.

I’m so proud of that 17-year-old girl. He fought and we get to the finals. It was the most important thing. He fought the best in the world with the girls. It experience needed.

Yet last summer the situation was much, much darker.

– we Start work in may. Then the girls were the most pathetic level – and now we get to the finals! It requires so much work that you don’t understand either. I see that we are on the right path.

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17-year-old Monika Skinder is a Polish ski great future promise. AOPAlennustila

Justyna Kowalczyk is unquestionably a successful skier, one of this millennium’s greatest – but also their own country only. Kowalczyk was a great success, however, was enough to make cross country skiing a big species of ski jumping in the promised land.

it’s different Now.

When we were big hiihtomaa, the size of the 40 million inhabitants of Poland considers. Now, they no longer see as much, Kowalczyk frets.

Vacuum is undeniable, because the Polish is not kowalczyk’s have also in recent years seen a world cup podium in practice at all. Not necessarily to see for a while yet, but the road is in Polish according to the right.

What Kowalczykiin himself, he no longer pallipaikka of reach. While the Polish was still Pyeongchangin olympics, focused on their own ski business in the future mainly Visma Ski Classics series for long trips. It’s the biggest goal, however, lies elsewhere than in our own ski in:

my Future is with young people.