– Sometimes it’s possible. Ingvild is a training machine and has been trained very well over the years. If you’ve been doing this for x number of years, then you might want to change that tile a bit. Maybe train a little differently at times. I think he can get a good development in that, in every way. It remains to be seen how things go. Value and customize.

Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass told Dagbladet. Mikkelsplass became Johaug’s personal trainer after a doping scandal in 2016. Since then, he stood by his side until he stepped down earlier this year.

He is now coach of Flugstad stberg, after it was discovered he was not offered a national team place next season. For the first time in 14 years.

In November last year, Flugstad stberg, after a long break, received the green light to participate in the Olympic season. At the same time, the Gjøvik girl admits that she struggles to get enough nutrition with regards to the amount of exercise. And that this trend is hard to reverse.

In December, he was again denied a start and the Olympic season and national team spots smoked.

When he announced Mikkeplast as his new coach in early May, he said that his goal was first and foremost to gain health.

It is also returning to the ski trails to compete internationally.

– I realized that there had to be bigger changes than before, precisely in what was happening to training and nutrition. “I can’t think that I would do the same, because before it wasn’t good enough,” he told Dagbladet.

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– In the start-up phase

Mikkelsplass is now looking forward to taking on a new coaching job, although the collaboration is still in the start-up stage, he stressed.

– It should go to the little neighbor. We need to get to know each other better before things go awry. It’s very interesting just that. “Ingvild has a team around him now that I believe can do well,” said Mikkelsplass.

How much follow-up are you going to do with it?

– We will have a lot of contacts on the phone and such an arrangement. Today is the case when you talk to each other on the phone, you can see each other too. No, so it should be. Of course, we also try to see each other on a regular basis to work a little more with technique.

Appropriate coaches continue:

– I was mostly advisor on that training job.

The question he was still asking himself

In addition to the surrounding teams, Flugstad stberg will continue to receive follow-up from the Olympic Summit. What the root of the problem was was something he was trying to find out.

However, the cross-country skier doesn’t know if the situation would be any different if she had a more concrete answer.

– It’s a bit difficult to be precise. Whether I know it or not, I don’t know either. “The only thing I’m prepared for, and know, is that it will be difficult too in the future,” he told Dagbladet in May.