At the end of last season, Team Eksjöhus, one of the top teams in the Ski Classics World Championship, disbanded after five years of competing at the highest level.

This news has forced the athletes to find a new Pro Team for the upcoming season. Among them is Jeremy Royer, the winner of the Youth overall standings for Season XVI (2024/2025), who shares his plans with us.

After spending two years with the Team Nordic Expérience Coste fromageries Marcel Petite, the French athlete joined the Swedish squad at the end of Season XV. He went on to deliver several strong performances, including two top-10 finishes during Season XVI, and won the Youth overall standings that same season.

Last winter, Jeremy Royer reached a new milestone: he made his first podium appearance on the Ski Classics Pro Tour. At the Engadin La Diagonela 2026 event, he took an impressive second place in the sprint behind Norway’s Amund Riege.

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After a summer of training during which he competed in several roller ski races, the long-distance specialist tells ProXCskiing he feels he’s in good shape.

“My training is going pretty well, I think I’m in good shape and that I’ve done a good job!” he said, before adding: “I took advantage of training at home over the summer, and I participated in the Hautdoubsloppet and the Blink Festival in the middle of summer to get back into competitive racing.”

This summer, the French cross-country skier finished second in the Hautdoubsloppet (a Ski Classics Challengers event), just behind Kasper Stadaas. At the Blink Festival in Norway, he placed 7th in the Lysebotn Opp double-poling race and 28th in the Blink Classic 50km.

This autumn, Jeremy Royer plans to do a high-altitude training camp in Font-Romeu, in the French Pyrenees: “This autumn, I’ll spend a month in Font-Romeu during October, and then I’ll see how things go.”

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After Team Eksjöhus disbanded, the Frenchman had to find a new team for the upcoming season of the Ski Classics World Championship:

“I’m part of a team that took quite a while to get off the ground, but it still doesn’t have a name because they’re looking for a main sponsor,” he said, before adding: “It’s true that this has kind of forced me to train on my own in France, or at least with the people around me, but I think the team will be ready to perform this winter!”

Looking ahead to next season, Jeremy shares his thoughts on the new schedule for the Ski Classics World Championship:

“It’s true that over the last four years that I’ve been racing on the circuit, the schedule has kept changing, so we have to adapt a little bit every year. But for me, it doesn’t change much; the rule remains the same: to perform well all winter long, you have to stay healthy, and that’s the hardest part,” he said.

Of course, the racing schedule still includes well-known competitions, but also new formats that Jérémy describes as interesting:

“As always, there are the five or six major races that drive our season, just like every year, plus some new, shorter race formats that may open the door to some interesting new race scenarios,” he said.

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Based on his results from recent seasons, Jeremy has set his sights on some ambitious goals for the future:

“In the short term, I would like to win a race on the Ski Classics Pro Tour and make it to the podium at one of the four Grand Classics.”

In the meantime, the French athlete continues his training in France ahead of the first events of the Ski Classics World Championship in December.

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