SEEFELD (Dagbladet): It was the perfect mesterskapsreturen for Therese Johaug in Seefeld. 15 kilometres of skibytte was as a parademarsj.
Johaug crossed the finish line first, a minute in front of the lagvenninna Ingvild Flugstad Østberg.
1457 days have passed since she took her last world cup gold medal on the final tremila in Falun.
now I should be allowed to go a championship, know on mesterskapsfølelsen and not at least get pass the finish line first is a dream come true, ” says Johaug.
your Mind goes to everything you’ve been through, all they have laid down by the training and everything from where the dark days have been some days the last two years where one has known that you really don’t want to do it here anymore, I now stand here today and am proud that you have come through the tough period, ” says 30-year-old.
A few people have been Johaug close through exclusion. Family with mother and father and brother Karstein, boyfriend Nils Jakob Hoff, coach Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass and manager Jørn Ernst, in addition to a small circle of friends, has always been closely connected to Johaug and together they worked through the disenchantment that came in the two years Johaug was banned. Johaug did not hesitate to thank them for the gold.
– Not at least, I think of the people who have been close to me and helped me through it here and really got me inspired to become a better skier. I’m incredibly fortunate to have such a wonderful family, a fantastic girlfriend and the girls on the team and the Norwegian support system and team in Johaug.
HIGH FIVE: Johaug and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg secured double English. Photo: Bjørn Langsem/Dagbladet Show more Leppekrem and suspension
the History of all know. A sore on the top lip of the collection in the Seiser Alm shall have been the cause of dopingsaken struck down as a shock. A leppekrem, trofodermin, which contained the anabolic steroid clostebol, were smeared on to a doctor leppa.
Honesty lasted the longest
a month and a Half later was Johaug caught for doping. Johaug and the national team told what was the background. The Norwegian landslagslegen Fredrik Bendiksen went off. It was he who should have bought the cream at a local pharmacy in Livigno.
Johaug got a penalty at 13 months and was crushed when she realized that the world cup in Lahti went the flute.
I’m completely broken. The situation is for me indescribable. There are not words to describe how terrible and awful I’ve had it for a week now. I’ll tell everything that has happened. I shall sit rakrygget, I have zero guilt in this matter, ” said Johaug.
In november 2017 she would be back in the national team. But the FIS did not. The case was appealed to this sport voldgiftsrett in Switzerland. They wanted a harsher punishment for the Norwegian skistjerna.
So it happened no one in the Johaugs camp had expected. At the end of august 2017, it was known that Johaug not only lost the world CHAMPIONSHIP in Lahti, but that the FIS-the appeal led to the prolonged punishment of 18 months. It did that Johaug went miss yet another season and thus also the OLYMPICS in Pyeongchang.
After thinking about a week’s time selected Johaug to not appeal the verdict. Johaug had to go on yet a season without competitions. What would be a final season together with Marit Bjørgen, there was never anything of. The two friends had not competed more with each other after the 2014/2015 season.
the Training was done in close cooperation with his brother Karstein and coach Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass. So good was the collaboration with the former world champion in the relay that Johaug got him further into the landslagssystemet then again she was back on the team the previous spring.
Already in the last year let the gulllplanene for Seefeld, while its competitors fought for the gold medal in the Pyeongchang was Johaug and finsiktet world cup trails.
– Yes, I was down here in Seefeld in two phases, once in February and one in march, where I went to nominate them 10 km classic and nominate them duatlon. I have had the trails here in the head in treningsarbeidet the last year and have known exactly what have been my weaknesses and what I need to improve on and my strengths where I can do my tactical options. I think it went to the letter on the klassisken in the day, ” says Johaug after gulløpet.
Currently Johaug have dreamed about in 863 days Tough autumn
in the Autumn of that went has been anything but easy for Johaug and the rest of the landslagsmiljøet. The first was the former landslagsløper and friend Vibeke Skofterud who passed away in the beginning of august. The sorrow was great for the tragic death of the bubbly happy Slitu-girl. The Norwegian landslagskvinnene interrupted a treningssamling in Torsby in Sweden to travel to the funeral.
A month later was the national team on the collection in the height of the Italian Livigno. There came a new tragic information. Ida Owned was dead. Owned had close ties to the entire national team, not only as the sister of Mari.
As jevngamle competitors in skiløypa had Ida and Therese Johaug become very close friends. This summer, they had celebrated the 30-årsdagene their community.
the Grief was enormous. Johaug spent the rest of the høydesamlingen to collect himself, used the workouts as sorgterapi, to get your mind over on something else. Treningsmengden had to be adjusted.
SCREAMED AND SCREAMED: Dagbladet TV as Sjur Røthes the gold race along with Therese Johaug and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg. Video: Fredrik Stuve/Dagbladet. Show more Developed
Through countless workouts together with little brother, Karstein has Johaug developed further as the skier through the years, she has been banned. In particular, she has taken major steps, where the cross country skiing was on the way when she disappeared in 2016.
Stakerevolusjonen was then at its most violent, with the men’s race won with a blank ski and pure staking. In Johaugs absence has been introduced stakefrie zones, and runners who Bolsjunov and Niskanen has created a renaissance for the discipline.
Yet Johaug gained a new weapon on the longer distances. The competition can no longer relax a little in the lighter parts. Now is Johaug also of the very, very best to keep the high-speed, high staking.
the 30-year-old creates a completely different force in stakepartiene, compared with what she had before.
Rages with the competition
Before verdenscupcomebacket in Ruka was Johaug unsure of how she would be received by their foreign competitors and fans. In place in Seefeld says Johaug that it has gone better than she had hoped.
There has been a tremendous reception from the first verdenscuprenn I went in Ruka. I know it is good to sit here today and know that I have done away the skirennene before christmas. When I got the experience I got there, one gets a greater confidence and self-esteem. I feel that things have calmed down now, I have been able to drop down the shoulders and focus on to go fast on skis, ” said Johaug yesterday.
In the winter, she has been completely superior. The Swedish challengers Ebba Andersson and Charlotte Called was pretty close in the start of the season in Ruka and Lillehammer. From there and to the world cup, there has never been any doubt about who is the world’s best female skier.
Johaug has also shown that she is mature and aware of own body and strain. Where she has participated in just about every race in verdenscupsesongen, she has for the first time chosen to skip the Tour de Ski. Totalbelastningen with the attention surrounding the comeback was so big that she needed more rest.
After the new year, it has looked like a very sensible choice. Johaug has been more superb than ever in Otepää, Ulricehamn and NM.
Many taken aback a bit on the Johaugs goal of a world CHAMPIONSHIP medal individually. Now she has at least reached the. Johaug is back on top.
Johaug vraker itself. Shock the Russian rival the SKI world CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM Thursday 21. February
At 12: 00 noon Prologue sprint: Sprint freestyle women and gentlemen Kl 14.00 Finals: Sprint freestyle women and gentlemen
Friday 22. February
At 10: 30 Am Jump storbakke: Combined (HS120 in Innsbruck) At 16.15 Combined cross-country skiing: 10 km
Saturday 23. February
11: 00 Am 15 mile skibytte: Women At 12: 30 pm 30 miles skibytte: Gentlemen At 14.30 Jump Storbakke: Gentlemen
Sunday 24. February
Kl 09.15 semi-finals lagsprint: cross-country Skiing women and gentlemen At 10: 30 Am Jump lagsprint: Combined At 11: 30 Finals lagsprint: Sprint freestyle cross-country skiing women and gentlemen 13.30 Hrs Lagsprint combined 2 x 7.5 km cross-country skiing At 14.45 Lagkonkurranse jump: Innsbruck
Tuesday, 26. February
13.30 Hrs 10 km classic: Women 16.00 Qualification jump: Women
on Wednesday the 27th. February
Kl 14.00 15 km classic: Gentlemen At 16.15 Jump: Women
Thursday, 28. February
11: 00 Am Jump normalbakke: Combined At 13: 00, Relay cross-country skiing: Women, 4×5 km Kl 15.15 Combined cross-country skiing: 10 km
Friday 1. march
Kl 13.15 Relay cross-country skiing, Gentlemen, 4×10 km 16.00 Jumps Gentlemen, normalbakke
Saturday 2. march
11: 00 Am Lagkonkurranse combined: Jump normalbakke At 12.15 30 miles: Women, freestyle At 14.45 Lagkonkurranse combined: cross-country Skiing 4×5 km 16.00 Mixed lagkonkurranse jump: normalbakke
Sunday 3. march
At 13: 00, 50 miles: Gentlemen, freestyle
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