“Gonna be damn lost”
Ski talent misses the Olympics – and applies to a supermarket
01/14/2026 – 11:37 amReading time: 2 minutes
As a child, Robin Olgård dreamed of taking part in the Olympics. Then the Swede got injured just days after qualifying.
Robin Olgård’s dream of the Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo ended prematurely. The 22-year-old ski freestyler seriously injured his knee during last Friday’s World Cup in Val Saint-Come in Canada. “This is pretty much the worst thing that could have happened. You can use the headline as a total mess,” Olgård told the Swedish tabloid Expressen. His diagnosis: cruciate ligament tear.
Olgård may be out for a whole year due to the injury. “As soon as I fell, I noticed that my knee had popped and I thought: That’s it for the Olympics,” the Swede continued. It will take time for him to process it. “Moguls are my whole life. I’ll be damn lost without moguls.”
The bitter thing: Just three days before the injury, he had been informed that he had been selected for his first Olympic Games. The nomination became official on Friday. “It was proof of all the hard work I put in. A dream since I was a child that came true,” Olgård recalled. “And then everything went completely down the drain.”
For Olgård, his whole life is now changing – at least for the time being. He doesn’t know “what I should do with my time. Maybe I have to study, maybe I have to look for a job. It’s a complete identity crisis,” he said. However, he hasn’t lost his sense of humor. Just hours after his fall, the 22-year-old shared a video on TikTok in which he was “applying” for a job at Swedish supermarket Ica. “It was more of a joke, I was really excited in that situation. Humor somehow becomes a defense mechanism,” he later clarified.