bad Luck, taktikmissar or flat.
Call it what you want, but the OLYMPIC games in Seoul was not a success for the Swedish freeskiinglandslaget.
come to the Bokwang, in the south Korean mountains, with some of the world’s best racers. Expectations were high, but a 15-year-old Jennie-Lee Burmansson was the best OS-Swedish – slopestyleåtta.
the Weightiest was the case for guldfavoriten Henrik Harlaut. The star had for the OLYMPICS, won both the prestigetävlingen Dew Tour (slopestyle) as the X-games ( both slopestyle and big air).
But in the OLYMPICS, he went out already in the qualification, appeared initially not up for the interviews and got to see fiaskorubrikerna succeed each other.
“I have learned a lot from what happened,” says Harlaut when the DN hit him at home in Sweden.
– All competitions last season was incredibly good. Except for the OS. Unfortunately.
their annual fystester at Bosön on Lidingö. Harlaut has settled down on a colorful mattress and thinking, thinking.
– There are a lot of the stuff that I have thought of that I did differently in the OS. What I have come to is that I tried to do too much before the OLYMPICS, I did so different than what I usually do, I made a big deal out of it.
” I tried to almost win the qualifiers, had like no thought about maybe getting top-three.
” I do not regret that I went for the gold, I had a crazy good year on the training, but did not get it down.
Freeskiingstjärnan Henrik Harlaut during the team’s annual fystester at Bosön. Coach Niklas Eriksson assists in the so-called ”it was a very. In the background korsbandsskadade talent Jennie-Lee Burmansson. Photo: Jonas Lindkvist
” I know, actually not really. I knew really nothing hard about the pressure from the outside. But I think that it was I myself who put a bit too high expectations of me, I bet on a little of the difficult year – I would have had three go on me in order to land. But in qualifying it was just the two of you.
crashed the 27-year-old, bit her tongue and began to bleed. He began to feel bad, ” he says today. And had it not been for the fact that it was an OS, he had probably broken the competition.
” I didn’t get a concussion… but I was a little dizzy. Such things were hard. And then it didn’t went as it would made it even harder.
– But anyway, I took with me very much from there, and as soon as it was over, I have tried to check the forward. Done is done and unfortunately it was not. But there is nothing that says that it will not go next time.
the very biggest names in the freeskiingvärlden.
In the week waiting inbjudningstävlingen Dew Tour in Colorado, then both the X games and the world CUP after the end of the year. The competitions are large and prestigious. But that OLYMPIC success would have meant a bigger boost for the sport, for the wide audience in Sweden, is no secret.
” I thought it was a shame to get so much negative against us. It was sad to see, ” says Harlaut.
– The worst was clearly against the sport. It was there I didn’t like. People can say what they want about me, that I was bad or anything, but to read such a criticism against our sport and so much negative was not fun. There was much that I did not at all agree with.
” Not really ”revenge”, I would say. Revenge will I only be able to take on the OLYMPICS four years from now, because everything else went well last year. But – it has definitely motivated me to want to become even better, and show what I can really do.
Henrik Harlaut during training in Stubai, where he recently won a world cup event in slopestyle. Photo: Jonas Lindkvist
clashes with the X-games sometimes have the sport’s biggest names opted out of the world cup – happy Henrik Harlaut.
– For the Swedish population has the world CUP a bit of the same feel as an OS. So then I will in all cases get a chance to prove me. Hopefully, I can deliver, ” he says.
– But otherwise it is quite clear the X-games that I look forward to.
r without snow, it was for the X-games star in the summer. In addition to the preparation for the competition season, he has released a film that just first week got 200,000 views.
Before the sports gala in January, he is nominated for Jerringpriset. And a couple of weeks ago he won his first world cup event in slopestyle, in the austrian Stubai.
” I’m crazy psyched as always at this time.
”I’m crazy psyched as always at this time”, says Henrik Harlaut before inbjudningstävlingen Dew Tour in Colorado. Photo: Jonas Lindkvist
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