{"id":34476,"date":"2023-02-20T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/threatened-that-now-you-have-to-stop-skiing-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:35:01","slug":"threatened-that-now-you-have-to-stop-skiing-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/threatened-that-now-you-have-to-stop-skiing-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"– Threatened that “now you have to stop skiing” – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcasting schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– How it is? That’s the worst thing there is. The question Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo (26) has been asked by news just before the WC in Planica is this: “How is it to be beaten in cross-country skiing?”. – I train twice a day, every day, to avoid being beaten in a ski race. That’s why you train, he emphasizes. Especially in sprints, the world’s best skier has been accustomed to winning in recent seasons. But this winter he has been beaten twice. First by Federico Pellegrino in freestyle in Davos before Christmas. So by Richard Jouve in classic in Les Rousses in January. On both occasions he was sprinted down the run. BEAT: Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo got a little grumpy when Federico Pellegrino referred him to second place in Davos. Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller \/ AP It has not been necessary to have a doctorate in reading body language to see how uncomfortable Kl\u00e6bo has been with the two defeats. He has not hidden his displeasure in the interviews afterwards either: – I’m going to start working with riots, because this was bullshit, he said, clearly disappointed, in Davos. Stronger feeling than winning – Winning a ski race is of course the best feeling, but losing a ski race is an even worse feeling than winning a ski race. Losing is the worst. Definitely the worst to lose, he explains from behind his sunglasses as we sit between idyllic mountain peaks in Lavaze, Italy. – So defeat is a stronger feeling than the joy of victory? – It’s not far, no. This perhaps explains why he has been criticized for not celebrating his victories with fervent enthusiasm: It is worth noting the choice of words. To come second, for Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo, is “to lose”. That attitude is not of recent date. Federico Pellegrino, who was the world’s best sprinter before Kl\u00e6bo took over the throne, noticed the young Norwegian’s reaction after the sprint final in the Lahti WC in 2017. The Italian favorite won. Kl\u00e6bo took bronze in the first championship race of his career, aged just 20. – He was sad on the podium – But I remember that he was very sad on the podium. There I really began to understand that in the future it was going to be very difficult to beat him, says Pellegrino to news. BEAT: While Federico Pellegrino celebrated WC gold with Petter Northug, a 20-year-old Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo had more than enough to swallow that he “only” got bronze in his WC debut. Photo: Lise \u00c5serud \/ NTB The displeasure with “losing” goes back even further than that, however. – I think I’ve always felt that way, since I grew up. I never liked losing. It has been the worst, says Kl\u00e6bo. As a child he was used to winning ski races, but in his teenage years the late-developing Johannes was suddenly often beaten by competitors who had skyrocketed before him. More precisely, he rarely or never won. There were many sour faces, he admits. – I have broken ski poles and of course done a lot of stupid and unnecessary things, says Kl\u00e6bo. – Got so much yelled at The parents simply thought that their teenage son behaved badly in the hour of defeat. Mamma Elisabeth eventually gave a clear message. – I’ve had so much fun, says Kl\u00e6bo. – Every single weekend she threatened that “now you have to stop skiing, because we can’t behave like that here”. Lose and win with the same mind, my mother always told me, and it’s not always that easy. THE CAREGIVERS: Mamma Elisabeth and grandfather K\u00e5re get the credit for Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo’s having a little better temper control. Photo: Stian Grythaugen \/ NTB Elisabeth Kl\u00e6bo confirms the story. – We had a few laps home from the ski race where I said that he either had to sharpen up or quit. Because there was a lot of bad behaviour, she says. According to her, it proved impossible to get her son to accept the “lose and win with the same mind” philosophy. Made a deal – We couldn’t teach him to accept losing, he’s just not made that way. So instead we made a deal. When he was angry after skiing, he got some time for himself. He could go to the woods and be gone for a few minutes. When he returned, he had to behave himself. There was probably a bit of chatter before the agreement worked, but eventually it did, says Elisabeth Kl\u00e6bo. – It is clear, you have learned to tolerate it better, says Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo. In proportion to the fact that the victories have increased, the defeats have also decreased, logically enough. But it still happens, all the time, that someone skis faster than Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo. He doesn’t like it any better now than before, but handles it differently. – It is important to be a good loser. It is important to wish others success and not least if they are teammates. So I’m glad that I’ve been allowed to learn it through, and I think it’s an important quality. Saved by grandfather’s patience Coach grandfather K\u00e5re also gets a large part of the credit for that. – He is a guy with good values, so I think I have learned a lot from him in general very, very much. If one day I have the same values \u200b\u200band attitudes that he has, then I will be very satisfied and say that I have succeeded in this life, says Kl\u00e6bo. Unlike the teenager with the starting number, grandpa wasn’t too concerned with the results lists. He was more concerned with how the grandson could approach the large rivals. Patience was the key word. – He was patient, and very calm and smart in the way he thought about training for me. That patience has meant that I have bothered to continue with cross-country skiing, and means that I can sit here today, says Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo. And what he is sitting there as is a big favorite in the WC. Federico Pellegrino has already given up the sprint gold. He is absolutely certain that Kl\u00e6bo will take it. He is unable to imagine that anyone can beat Norway with Kl\u00e6bo as anchorman in the two team competitions either, and is fairly certain that the still young Tr\u00f8nder will take the five-mile gold he was denied in Oberstdorf two years ago. The WC goal: – Good days – He is a machine, says Pellegrino, which also gives Kl\u00e6bo a good chance in the three-mile, a little depending on how Norway as a team sets up its tactics. It is only in the 15 kilometer freestyle that Pellegrino does not give Kl\u00e6bo a favorite stamp, he puts that on Simen Hegstad Kr\u00fcger and Hans Christer Holund, but even there the seasoned Italian believes that Kl\u00e6bo has every opportunity. This means that Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo takes a minimum of four, and at full throttle can take six golds in the WC, based on Federico Pellegrino’s analysis. – If he does, it will just be another demonstration that he is the best, says Pellegrino, who is not alone in his analysis. For the record: No cross-country skier has won six golds in one and the same championship. Jelena V\u00e4lbe won all exercises during the WC in Trondheim in 1997, but then there were no more than five exercises. Marit Bj\u00f8rgen managed four golds in one WC three times during her career. Petter Northug managed it once. Kl\u00e6bo himself does not talk about gold at all when he talks about the goals for the WC in Planica. – To have as good days as possible, that is the plan, that is the goal, and then we have to start with a sprint, and then we can take things from there, he says. WC FAVORITE: Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo has completed the last WC preparations in Val di Fiemme and Lavaze. Photo: Anders Skjerdingstad \/ news The medal that is missing Based on how deeply Kl\u00e6bo dislikes being beaten, it is nevertheless clear where the list lies. – Well, I stand on the starting line to join and fight, I absolutely do. I don’t stand on the starting line if I know I can’t join and fight, then it’s better to let someone else have the chance, he confirms. But Kl\u00e6bo is painfully aware that the portfolio of seven WC medals so far in his career does not contain a single medal from an individual distance race. – First you have to try to win a medal, I don’t have that in the context of the WC at a distance, so we have to roll up our sleeves and do a good job. I look forward. It will be exciting, he acknowledges. On Thursday it starts, with a classic sprint. Should Kl\u00e6bo lose his first sprint championship final since 2017, the “lose and win with the same mind” principle will be put to its biggest test yet.
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