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Few athletes have met King Harald more often than Therese Johaug (38), and one encounter stands out above the rest. In 2011, at the World Championships on home soil, more than 100,000 people cheered inside and outside the course at Holmenkollen. Johaug surged past her rivals to take her first of many individual championship gold medals.

Afterward, she was so happy she hardly knew what to do, so she jumped into the king's arms. "You did it, congratulations! The moment was nominated for "TV Moment of the Year.

Queen Sonja also received a warm hug from Johaug. "We talked about what it was like to go around the course, about the public life and things like that, Johaug later explained. On Friday, August 28, the royal house announced that King Harald had died.

He was 89 and passed away at 6:35 in the morning. Johaug looks back on that embrace in 2011. "It is my greatest sporting moment and memory, that meeting with the king, she said in a statement sent to VG. Since then, there have been many meetings with the king for the woman with a total of 29 medals from World Championships and Olympics.

"I am so incredibly grateful and proud that we have had a king who was so down-to-earth, who genuinely cared about people." I have been so lucky to meet him several times, and he was always equally interested, knowledgeable, and one felt safe in his presence, Johaug said. Petter Northug, with his two Olympic golds, 13 World Championship golds, and seven individual national championship golds, has met King Harald numerous times. "I have been terribly lucky.

I have received royal trophies from him in connection with the national championships, met him in the World Cup and during the World Championships in Oslo. Many fine sporting memories with the king remain. Not least where I have met him in some private settings.

One memory in particular has burned itself in. After the national championships at Røros in 2015, ahead of one of Northug's most important championships in Falun 11 years ago, he ended up side by side with King Harald on the flight home. The seats in front were reserved, but then the bodyguards moved and made room for Northug and King Harald in the aisle at the front of the plane.

"We got to talk in great detail about my path into the World Championships in Falun. He was interested in why I was going to Italy to train at 2,300 meters. I got to experience someone who was terribly, terribly interested, concerned with the details of the sport and very up to date on what we were doing.

Having those close memories there, of a king who has been very interested, I have felt that a lot. He was concerned with the questions only a nerd, a cross-country skiing nerd, wants to dig into. It is terribly fun.