The sprint star shocked everyone when she won the second stage, 10 km classic mass start in the Swiss Val Müstair, of the Tour de Ski in January.

She put the distance specialists in the shadows and here and there took her sixth World Cup victory, of which the Östersund daughter's first at a distance.

And she did it - despite her young age - as an experienced World Cup skier.

- I got there and had to pull the handbrake a lot before and had used the weeks when we did not compete to train a little.

My coach said that we would be observant so that we would not go over any limit before the tour.

I was not sure what kind I would be for the tour, I had a little chance.

"Still was like breaking a barrier"

She also did not know how to respond to the high altitude.

- But I still thought "the opening distance is sprint, I know what to do", and then it went the way.

It was perhaps the first race I entered with a different attitude to how I would handle the races compared to how I did before.

That day I wanted to control from the start.

Previously, I wanted to control and set but be discreet in the field and then chop.

But in the first premiere sprint, I did not want to let anyone else have an advantage.

As a sprinter, hitting the distance was great, she thinks.

- It may not have been the highlight this year, but it was still like breaking a barrier.

"Is there anyone here you can celebrate with?"

What did you think when you finished there in the distance?

- I thought: "is there anyone around here that I can celebrate with?".

Then Moa (Lundgren) came and gave me a hug.

I thought exactly the same thing when I won my first World Cup in Davos;

"Is there anyone here you can celebrate with?"

You mean, like, saltines and their ilk, eh?

- Yes, but it will be a bit like that.

Maybe there is no one who expects me to go in and win a ten-classic, a distance competition.

No one expected me to win a sprint in 2019.

Do not Frida (Karlsson) and Ebba (Andersson) come forward and congratulate you afterwards =

- Well, then I got some high-five.

Absolutely, I got congratulations.

But maybe they were the ones who "should" win the competition, while I would win the sprint.

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