“The world cup in cross-country”
“Swedish skidhjältens fine memory of Petter Northug”
“Johan Olsson: ”I have it there, unwashed””
“Johan Olsson has many fine memories of Petter Northug.”
“in the English-skidhjältens home in Sundsvall.”
“– He gave me his number after femmilen 2013 and I still have. Unwashed, ” says Johan Olsson.”
“Petter Northug, 32, announced during an emotional press conference today that his career is over.”
“His decision evokes feelings among the competitors.”
“Johan Olsson, who competed against Petter Northug in several years, is now a part of the Swedish men’s national team training team.”
“He will miss Petter Northug and think that the circumstances that forced a decision of the Norwegian feels difficult.”
” the Decision is a bit expected, but I also feel a little sadness that he ended up in this situation and couldn’t deliver all the way until the end, it had the desired. It is very very hard to get back from such overtraining as he seems to have had, but if anyone could do it it was Petter. He has become a target for mockery back now at the end and it has been a bit undignified, ” says Johan Olsson.”
“Petter Northug has affected the skiing. It’s Johan Olsson first. For Johan Olsson the Norwegian, also has been a great inspiration and a driver to perform great deeds.”
“– He has been at the peak of his career for a very long time. In 2011, during the world CUP in Holmenkollen, so took I don’t how it would go to beat him on the longer races, which was my focus.”
“I looked at him in slow motion ‘”
“– I remember one set that looked at him in slow motion, to see how he solved things. At lower speeds, when it went really slow, it could look bad. But when you saw his sprints in slow motion, it was crazy how he was able to put the positions in as high speed. Many took not of how he could do it, “says Johan Olsson, who points out that Petter Northug has been a”
“– No-one has changed the sport in the direction that he made, then came the masstarternas big foray then of course. He changed for me personally for how I would lay the foundation for my femmil in Val di Fiemme, that it became the urumqi as it was. I understood that you had to do something outside the box to win a femmil. He was the author of my achievement, ” says Johan Olsson.”
“Just the peerless femmilen, when Johan Olsson skied away from the field in the Val di Fiemme was a unique event in skiing.”
“the One that respected Johan Olsson’s feat extra was Petter Northug.”
“”One of the very best””
“After the race, in the mixed zone where interviews are conducted, searched the Norwegian star up Johan Olsson and gave him his queue number.”
“– He showed the most respect. He arrived in the mixed zone, which is a place you naturally do not meet, but just want to quickly through. He tapped me on the shoulder and gave me her number. I have still left at home. Unwashed. With a splash of Norwegian sports drink… It was very unexpected, ” says Johan Olsson, who put Petter Northug in their skidhistoria.”
“– With Björn Dählie and Gunde Svan, he is one of the very very best. It is skidhistorien, not just the modern. It brings a certain respect for the old credentials.”
