Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronika Stepanova in her column on , she explained what role the Norwegian played in the revamping of the sport Marit Bjorgen .
Bjørgen is the only eight-time Olympic champion in women’s cross-country skiing history, and also the holder of the most awards in Winter Olympics history of any athlete (15 medals).
– Why are the best skiers of the 2020s completely different from the skiers of the 1990s, for example? We are much more powerful, more muscular, we can lift ourselves twenty times on the bar (the best in this component can do forty times) and easily press our weight on the chest.
Answer: Marit Bjorgen. The most successful skier in history, eight times Olympic champion and eighteen times world champion, has changed his ski. It was she and her coaches who first realized that hard skiing, as they have learned to do in our century, requires a different approach, different muscles.
No one before Marit looked so powerful, worked so much with iron.
Now we are all little Marit Bjorgen,” Stepanova wrote.
Stepanova won gold at the 2022 Beijing Games as part of the women’s relay team. According to the results of the 2022/23 season in the Russian Cup, the 22-year-old skier became second in the overall standings.
Source : MatchTV
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