the Criticism get the truckers to strike back with the type ”We are the most on the couch” Mr Burman said after the effort on Saturday. Landslagschefen Rikard Grip says you have to give the truckers time.
But Victor Thorn as the best swede ends in place 23 in the individual 15-kilometer race in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, of course, an all-time low.
Thorn is a hope for the future, but the 22-year-old from Bengtsfors have back problems. It has a 24-year-old Burman and Daniel Rickardsson, the veteran that fills 37 years in march, have not received back the feeling of skiing after his foot injury from last summer.
Oskar Svensson, who surprised with a fifth place finish in the sprint in the OLYMPIC games in Seoul, was not in place in Ulricehamn, Svensson has been bothered by diseases.
so, one can find a couple of joys.
Calle Halfvarssons relay race raises hopes. A more unknown name is Axel Ekström, 23 years and jämngammal with Oskar Svensson, who had last season ruined by colds and glandular fever. Ekström finished 27:a and was the second-best swede in the fristilsloppet in Ulricehamn.
Ekström broke through at senior level when he was second in the Swedish premier games in Bruksvallarna in november 2016. He got the chance to ride the Tour de Ski and was, among other things 17:e at 10 km skejt in Toblach.
a number of racers who can take a medal in the world CHAMPIONSHIPS. With Stina Nilsson away increasing the pressure on Charlotte Cold but the rides she performed at the tiokilometersloppet not impressed.
the Call went as fast as she could home to the hotel after Saturday’s individual race. For the race said the Cold that she liked the courses but it didn’t look like she was about to tear when the bar sharply up.
the Cold has had dippar in the past, and yet always come home from the CHAMPIONSHIPS with medals. She has since the world CUP in Liberec 2009 took two gold, six silver and four bronze.
at home in Sundsvall. Then hope both the Cold and her coaches Magnus Ingesson to the hard training Call subject to when many of the other riders chose to ride the Tour de Ski will give the dividend.
Then both the idea and the hope that there is a last gear to put in when the world CUP in Seefeld begins February 19.
If there is a disquieting sign when it comes to Cold so see Ebba Andersson out to be one of the largest medaljhoppen in the Swedish world CUP squad.
had also a pretty long tävlingsuppehåll from the world cup but has continued its journey towards the absolute top.
Or rather. She is already there even if she still has Therese Johaug to defeat.
In this weekend’s competition was the 21-year-old from the town of Sollefteå, once again, the great Swedish pleasing aspect with a third-place finish at tiokilometersloppet and a well executed stafettsträcka.
Already in the last year showed Andersson that she has the capacity to be with and interfere in the fight if pallplatserna, in the OLYMPIC games in Seoul, she was only eight tenths from the bronze in the skiathlon.
currently it doesn’t look like it will be something tronskifte, everything speaks to Johaug takes three individual gold in Seefeldt, but the time talking to Ebba Andersson.
