– I think it will be good. He seems motivated and eager to put in a good job, and it seems that he has brought a good support apparatus here now, who will be there to help. So I think he will return to where he has been, I am quite sure of that, says Johannes Høsflot Klæbo to news. He is talking about Emil Iversen, who in April revealed to news that he had been dropped from the national team. – Now it will be good with some changes. I think I need it both mentally and physically. Set up a race that is a little more tailored for Emil. The mud I’m in now, I need some time to rebuild myself from. In peace and quiet, Iversen told news at the time. On Wednesday, Iversen will talk about the way forward, at a press conference that starts at 12. Get help news was present when Iversen was to run an interval session on the slopes in Granåsen, where he will compete for WC medals in 2025. With him was his father Ole Morten Iversen, former women’s national team coach, and former men’s national team coach Trond Nystad. Nystad will now be a personal training advisor. STRONG TEAM: Didrik Tønseth, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo ran Wednesday’s interval session together. Photo: Ragna Kristine Sandholt / news Johannes Høsflot Klæbo also showed up to take part in the session, together with his trainer grandfather Kåre. While Iversen was scrapped from the national team last spring, Klæbo turned down a place. Afterwards came Didrik Tønseth and Sindre Bjørnestad Skar, both of whom were first dropped from the national team, then were taken back in when Klæbo said no and Hans Christer Holund quit. Pål Trøan Aune, who quit after the season, also rose with him. Thus, there were five extremely strong skiers who pushed each other to a solid hard session. Finding strong training mates in the local environment in Trondheim will be a central key for Iversen in the coming years. The strongest he can find is Johannes Høsflot Klæbo. – Good for a change The world’s best skier confirms to news that he will train a lot with Iversen, without them formally belonging to a joint team. – I will be a friend and training partner. We will have many training trips together throughout the summer and autumn. So we will certainly be in different places sometimes, but when both are in Trondheim, I guess it could be if not two sessions a day together, then at least one of them, says Klæbo. DOWN TOUR: It ended with a 13th place when Emil Iversen had to defend his WC gold in the five thousand in Planica. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB He believes Iversen will manage well without follow-up from the national team. – It seems that the spark is back, and that he seems more motivated than ever. I think that for his part, he will benefit from a change. Now he is allowed to be his own boss and manage his everyday life as he wants, Klæbo points out. He refers to the session that has just been completed. – If you ask him how this session was, it’s a six. If there had been more from the team, it might have gone a little too hard. It is the total workload that is important, and that is where he now gets to manage everything himself, and I think he will manage that well, says Klæbo. – Sad, frustrated, pissed off and bewildered, Emil Iversen experienced his greatest moment as a skier when he became world champion in the five-thousander in Oberstdorf in 2021 – a gold he won after Klæbo was disqualified. Afterwards, Klæbo collected World Cup and Olympic medals on a regular basis, while Iversen has put two very demanding seasons behind him. Last year’s best results in the World Cup came in the 20 kilometer classic at Lillehammer and the 10 kilometer classic at Beitostølen, where he finished sixth and fourth respectively. Good results, but not where Iversen has ambitions to be. His last race of the season was the WC five-mile in Planica, which he was only allowed to run because he was the defending champion. He was never close to defending the WC gold and was number 13. – You get sad, frustrated, pissed off and at a loss. But the motivation is there. And it almost only gets stronger and stronger the more adversity I face, Iversen told news in connection with the national team scrapping earlier this spring. The 31-year-old described the whole thing as having “faded blind”. For the training he gave up after the 2021/22 Olympic season, he rolls the dice six. Nevertheless, the results have not been forthcoming. Operation – It has been extremely frustrating and boring. Especially when you feel you are doing a good job, and then you get the opposite result of what you think. He continued: – Some think it’s psychological, others think it’s technical. Many people mean so much and I myself cannot recognize myself in much of it. BREATHE IN THE GROUND: The sinus surgery put Emil Iversen on the couch this spring. Photo: Bent Lindsetmo / news At the same time, Iversen said that he was not healthy during the WC and that his health has not been optimal with blocked sinuses. After the WC, he therefore chose to have an operation on his sinuses. Now he is determined to do the hard work required to reach the top again. – If you can settle for a medal in Granåsen, I would say that my skiing career has been better than what I had dreamed of when I was young. Then we’ll forget the two shitty years here. If I win a medal during the WC in Granåsen, I will give up five minutes afterwards, Iversen told news in April. Wednesday reveals that he will therefore come up with the detailed plan for how it will be done. Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has faith in his friend: – I think he is quite eager for revenge, and then it will be exciting to see. Now he has a year with a championship-free season where he can simply refine his scheme, and then it will be exciting to see what results he gets. If he gets good results, he will probably stay.
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