10, 20 and 50 kilometers.
These are the distances that await the cross-country skiers in the World Cup this winter.
But Olympic queen Therese Johaug, who ran her last race for the Norwegian national team in Holmenkollen in March, is critical of the new distances.
Johaug: "Very skeptical"
- I personally have to say that I am very skeptical of the new system that FIS has set up.
That girls and boys should go the same distance.
I feel that for several years I have been told that I have ruined the sport when the time difference was large and that I won too much, says the Norwegian according to NRK.
Johaug does not believe that the change will benefit the sport in the future, rather the opposite when ladies have to run five miles.
- Then the time difference will be even greater.
How will you succeed in making the sport more popular?
Jonna Sundling is on the same track.
- Had I decided the competition layout myself, I probably wouldn't have changed as much as they did now, from three to five miles.
There are big differences, very big differences.
It will take significantly longer, it will perhaps be more protracted, that it will go slower at the beginning.
It's hard to say now, but there will be other competitions.
Sundling: "There has probably been a bit of a misunderstanding"
It has been a discussion after all, many of the Swedish ladies have raised the point that there should be races of the same length. Isn't it good then that they have listened to it?
- There has probably been a bit of a misunderstanding, or that they didn't want such big changes.
We probably haven't had a say in that much.
How has the dialogue looked then with FIS?
- In any case, I myself have not been involved in how I would like it to be in recent times, before the decision was made.
CUT: Here, Sundling and Karlsson train together in Östersund (September 13, 2022)
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Here, Jonna Sundling and Frida Karlsson train together: "Gold worth" Photo: SVT