Overview

• Fossesholm announced the retirement on Instagram on October 8, calling the decision final and effective immediately.
• She said her motivation had fluctuated for months despite summer efforts to reignite it, including trying to act as if it were at its peak.
• Therese Johaug called the news very surprising, Heidi Weng said she shed a few tears, and national coach Sjur Ole Svarstad described feeling goosebumps.
• The exit is being treated as a significant setback for Norway just before the Olympic season begins.
• Her résumé includes 2021 World Championship relay gold, a national 10 km freestyle title the same year, ninth in the distance World Cup, and two individual World Cup podiums.