This is where Therese Johaug was destroyed

Gold for the 50 km race for the World Cup.

It was day number one from day Therese Johaugin36, the goal when he announced that he was making a comeback last year.

An extremely slow skiing on Sunday on the closing trip of Trondheim’s World Cup, Johaug’s goal would have been supported, but the woman’s gold plan was destroyed.

Johaug was not in the 2024-25 season as before.

– Already at the beginning of the season, it was estimated that he would not reach the level he had at his best. After all, there were quite a few wins. Whenever he had to ski hard, he dropped from the tip. Inter alia Jonna Sundling and Frida Karlsson are too fast for him, says Iltalehti’s ski expert Reijo Jylhä.

The travel pace cooled

Prior to the end of the season in 2021-22, the woman won 14/17 competition and three times she was second. In 2022, he returned with three personal gold medals from the Chinese Olympic Games.

In Trondheim, two personal silver and one bronze were put on the neck.

– Johaug was no longer able to drop others at his travel speed. Before he stopped, he hit, for example, in the first 10 kilometer race, the first Vitos so firmly that others dropped. With the latter vitos, the difference no longer increased, the expert analyzes.

– Now it didn’t work anymore. For example, on Sunday, Trondheim’s fifty left three other women, and Frida Karlsson Even pulled the last 20 kilometers, the Rovaniemi man adds.

A glimpse of Old Johaug was seen in Lillehammer in early December when he took a double victory in the World Cup. Tour de Sk became the title of the overall race.

– This season did not dim his brilliant career. This year she brought extra color to women’s skiing. I also understand the faith of Norwegian women’s skiing. The Norwegians were better than planned.

On Sunday, Oslo confirmed that his career will end next weekend at the Oslo World Cup.

Finally gold

On Sunday, Karlsson, 25, finally won the first personal value race of his career.

Gold has been expected since the 2021 World Cup.

– On Sunday there was one skier over the others – of course, there was a slippery ski. Frida was by far the best way to skate and slide well. Johaug beat himself into the snow. Also Ebba Andersson and Heidi Weng are chips.

In addition to Sunday gold, Karlsson achieved Trondheim’s three personal trips and a fourth place in the 10+10 kilometer combination race.

It seems drastic to say that expectations were higher. But that’s what it is.

– I had the expectation that he would have been better. Two World Cup wins, Ruka and France, were so overwhelming. I waited for him to win the ten World Cup.

For the first time in the World Skiing World Championship history, Sweden was the number one for women’s skiing. Six trips, six gold. Of the personal medals, 6/12 went to Blue Yellow.

– Sweden may have handed over one medal on Sunday to Norway when Ebba fell. The Swedish ski slide was so overwhelming that Ebba would have been different.

The surprise of Pärmäkoski

Krista Pärmäkoski was seventh on Sunday. It was about the expected end result.

It is somewhat surprising that the athlete suffering from muscle rupture wanted to compete on Sunday. The Kuortanian justified his solution to get a supercompensation for the 50km race next weekend in the Oslo World Cup.

“I would have thought that the Lahti World Cup 50 kilometers would be able to do better,” says Jylhä.

Pärmäkoski will not ski in Lahti in two weeks, but the season will end next weekend at Holmenkollen.

– Sunday was a big shock to the body, so in principle it can rise higher than the original level. The risk here is that he will not have time to recover from 50 kilometers to next weekend.

Nissinen tinted

The only skier who exceeded the only pre-expectations of the Finnish Women’s Trondheim team was Vilma Nissinen.

-He knew he was skiing at the World Cup for only 50 kilometers. Nissinen and her coach used all the experience and knowledge that you need to prepare for one race.

Jarmo Risk The coach was sacred fifteenth.

– I believe that I was able to maximize their own performance. Without a crash, he would have fought instead of 13.

Diggins at the moonlight

The overwhelming top of the World Cup Jessie Diggins was in Trondheim at the moonlight.

– The US sometimes had quite functional skis. At the beginning of the Games, the picture came that he was working hard, but he would not be able to move forward easily.

On Sunday, Diggins dived 22nd and missed Karlsson for more than 17 minutes.

– His strength, especially in skating, is that he can carry the ski well. I thought Jessie was as good as Frida.

The best personal achievement of the United States in Trondheim was the thirteenth place in the combination race.

Either the condition is down or the equipment was deceived, Jylhä ponders.

– Has it happened that the fitness peak was already, the expert asks.

– Or maybe there were a lot of challenges with skis in the problem speakers. Salomon’s skis were successful in the World Cup, so it is possible that the Yankees did not work. It means pattern or lubrication problems, Jylhä outlines.