The Swedish skidskytteveteranen Fredrik Lindström got the heavy news on Thursday.
After leaving the världscuppremiären in Slovenia last week with a fever and a nagging tooth, he has been affected by glandular fever.
on Friday, writes for the Swedish biathlon team to regular sjukdomsperiod is three weeks, but fatigue can sit in longer than that. Thus can the 29-year-old is forced to go on a battle against the clock to find form at world CUP in Östersund, sweden in march.
” It feels very sad to have to cancel the competition so here at the beginning of the season, says Fredrik Lindström in a statement.
” But I’m going to focus on rest and as quickly as possible to be back on skis.
from the winter relay, Jesper Nelin, is sick (a cold), it was Sebastian Samuelsson, Peppe Quintuplet, Martin Ponsiluoma and Torstein Stenersen, who stood on the start in Friday’s världscupsprint in austrian Hochfilzen.
But there was no blue and yellow bull’s-eye.
13th place was a tangering of a career second-best världscupresultat for OLYMPIC silver medalist Samuelsson, but a boom in the last shooting put a stop to bigger dreams.
“I don’t ride as fast as last week, but I’m still happy,” said Sebastian Samuelsson to the SVT.
Behind the 21-year-old, it looked gloomy out: Ponsiluoma get to run Saturday’s pursuit after a 54th place and a boom on Friday. But Stenersen (62nd in spite of full shooting) and Quintuplet (80:e with two boom) get to see the race from the side.
top Norwegian star Johannes Thingnes Bö season’s third straight victory in the sprint. Despite a boom, he was 8.6 seconds before the last few years världscupdominant Martin Fourcade (France) shot in full.
Benedikt Doll (Germany) was third, and the start of another one and a half seconds after the Start in Saturday’s pursuit, where Samuelsson’s baseline is 58 seconds behind the lead.