the Word super has become a Swedish sportjournalistiks most worn rubrikord in these klicktider.
To describe the 19-year-old junior Frida Karlsson from Sollefteå made this sunny, vårvarma februaritisdagen in the austrian Seefeld, there is still only one word to use:
SUPER.
this is like when Mats Wilander was at the French rocks, as when Charlotte Kalla climbed up the Italian slope, when Peter Forsberg added penalties, as when the Mondo Duplantis hovered in Berlin or what ever that young, Swedish sports stars made early on in their careers.
where was all the early big winners. It will Frida Karlsson also become.
Now she was second.
Sweden’s youngest medalist in a world CHAMPIONSHIPS or OLYMPIC games.
Just beaten by Therese Johaug. Frida Karlsson beat all of the others. All of the other russia and the last and the world, and dress shoes.
been so pressed in any race since his comeback after dopningsavstängningen. Earlier in the winter she has trippat against wins, now sluggade she against gold. It was the future of the times which forced her to empty everything.
And not even Johaug managed to take silver in her first championships, she took ”only” the bronze in 2007.
Johaug is the present and the past. Karlsson is the present and the future.
Frida Karlsson has won two individual gold in the junior world CHAMPIONSHIPS and you can talk about her lung capacity and her technology, but another crucial explanation for the fact that she now slammed into the world elite, so this is something else:
the Head.
I have never experienced a mästerskapsdebutant have the same attitude outside of the races since Anja Pärson in the alpine world CUP in 1999.
Anja was a teenager then, talking cocky about gold but fell twice. The gold came two years later.
was here to see and learn.
It turned out that she was here to show how to ski and teach.
Before the premiere talked Frida Karlsson with the security and confidence that it was location on the track where it was possible to get past the racers. She had met the world’s elite once.
Before Tuesday’s race talked Frida Karlsson, with peace and the attitude that it would be fun if it went even better than in the debut. She had only started once in the a championship and become the fifth.
Frida Karlsson has not been the slightest bit afraid to aim for the stars and she has at the same time, stood so firmly with our feet on the ground.
It’s one of those psyche you must have if you are to cope with the leap from junior champion to star in the adult world. It is the attitude you must have if you should be able to do their best races in the biggest races.
Frida Karlsson also has a lot of other things that are important in her new role. She has huge star potential outside of the tracks.
that goes through the screens. She has an impressive relaxed way to meet the media. And if you read the DN story with her mamma Mia before the race so you know that she has an environment where joy and achievements all the time, is emphasised before the results.
the Pressure on himself, the ability to go so that she is tired beyond all physical walls – this is where she is able of itself.
When I called her influences depends not only on her relaxed pictures on hang out with friends, she shows up at his Instagramkonto.
I think that she is a skater who can influence all those long and has been her role models. Role models are often older, influencers have no lower age.
Frida Karlsson is 19 years and of the whole world skidelit has every reason to feel concern. Not enough with that Therese Johaug is back in the ski tracks. If she only has a few years left of their career so is Frida Karlsson, just in the beginning of his.
They resemble each other in appearance and skiing style, and they have the same ability to start races so fast that they shock each other.
finally, On Thursday it is the relay and where I want to see Karlsson on the second leg – against Johaug.
