June 24, 2015 (Hemsedal, Norway) – Norwegian xc ski star, Marit Bjoergen, announced that she is pregnant at a team press conference in Hemsedal on June 23. The baby is due in December and Bjoergen will not be competing this season and expects to return in 2017.

Marit Bjoergen © Nordic Focus

This past season Bjoergen, 35, became the first athlete to twice capture all three World Cup crystal globes – overall, distance and sprint. With 14 world championship victories and six Olympic gold medals, she has recored 90+ World Cup victories making her the record-holder for both women and men.

After Sochi 2014 Bjoergen apparently signaled she was thinking of starting a family with her partner, Nordic combined Olympic champ, Fred Borre Lundberg. According to Norwegian media she has not signed an agreement yet with the Norwegian Ski Federation.

“I am very much looking forward to our baby,” said Bjoergen who informed her teammates on the weekend. “I told them on Sunday, and they we’re very excited.”

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