Last winter, she won five individual races in the World Cup, took home the Sprint Cup, and challenged Jessie Diggins for the overall World Cup victory until the last winter race. During summer, Linn Svahn made an interesting change in her training: “I will continue with double threshold days in my training plan,” says Svahn.

No one captured more medals than this year’s comeback sensation: Three days after the World Cup final in Falun, the 24-year-old Swedish embarked on a wild medal raid.