French Maurice Manificat won the 15 km friteknikk in Swedish Ulricehamn in front of Simen Hegstad Krüger and Didrik Tønseth.
For the nearly 50 000 spectators was the race a giant disappointment.
Hjemmehåpet Viktor Thorn was the best swede with a 23.-space. He went into the goal over a minute behind Manificat.
Axel Ekströms 27.-space is seen as a positive surprise in an otherwise bekmørk day for Swedish herrelangrenn.
– It is nice to have a Swedish surprise when it might otherwise have been quite traurig today, said the SVT commentator Jacob Rough.
– Yes, more than traurig. There are a total darkness now, Swedish herrelangrenn, la SVT-expert Anders Blomquist.
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Opposite the SVT says Blomquist, who won the Vasaloppet in 1988, that the weak results are not surprising, although they had hoped for more from including the Thorn and Daniel Rickardsson, who came on 38.-space.
– It is again a confirmation that the Swedish herreskisport is far, far, far from where it should be. Now we are also at home with extra support, young runners get the chance to get a good result, but right now we have no one who can get it, ” says Blomquist to the SVT.
SVT-the expert asks the Swedish skiforbundet about to take his words seriously and make a separate herresatsing.
here does not hold. It here is too bad for a Swedish team. We have talked about it in several years, it to make a special commitment. To give the many young runners who have talent prerequisites to be out and train a lot. A larger width to get a better herreløpere, ” says Blomquist.
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the Criticism has not gone unnoticed among Swedish skaters.
– He throws a lot of crap. I don’t have much to spare for neither he and his talk, ” explains Burman, who came on 33.-space, to Expressen.
the 24-year-old before the support of the lagkompisene Thorn and Rickardsson.
Killed: A total darkness over Sweden
– I don’t know if one can say. It is a fairly serious assertion. We are in a very real generational change and the need to shed light on the way. What sofaeksperter says, I care little about, ” says Rickardsson.
– It is not so cool to hear it, it is not so positive for the sport that he says stuff like that. It drags down the group. I don’t think that my season has been a total darkness, ” says hjemmehåpet Thorn.
the Coach Rikard Grip also refers to the generasjonsskiftet opposite Radiosporten.
– You can talk about that we don’t get good results, but look at, for example, Axel Ekström in the day that climbs up from the national group and take verdenscuppoeng.
– If one knows of his history it seineste the time, so it is a fantastic result. And one should not forget that Viktor was the number eleven the previous weekend, ” says Grab.
Johaug superior again: – It was completely raw
