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Linn Svahn is one of the biggest poster names ahead of the Ski World Championships.
But now the Swede is disappointing many ski enthusiasts.
Svahn puts his foot down and completely refuses.
Recent years have been tough for Lynn Svahn who had to overcome enormous pain and injury problems. For over two long years she was affected by shoulder problems and only in the last season was she able to show her great potential again.
Svahn’s great success
Svahn won his first World Cup race in over 1,000 days during last season’s Tour de Ski and then switched gears in the spring. The Swedish sprint star lined up victories and managed to win the overall Sprint Cup, as well as come second in the overall World Cup standings last season.
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Ahead of the coming ski season, she has set her sights on the ski World Championships. Svahn has yet to win a single championship medal as a senior skater and dreams of hanging something around his neck.
Refuses in the skiing World Cup
Last season impressed Lynn Svahn not only in sprint races but also over longer distances. A historic five-mile race awaits the women for the first time in a World Cup context, but the Swedish 24-year-old is now putting her foot down properly.
– I don’t think it’s interesting at all. Not for me, she says to Expressen, rejecting all attempts to be persuaded to go five miles.
– No, I’m not in the mood at all.
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Instead, it is mainly two races that Svahn has set his sights on during the World Ski Championships.
– Individually, I have set my sights on two distances, if all goes well. Sprint is the one and I’m keen on the skiathlon, she says in the interview and also hopes to join the relay team.
– You don’t run a sprint relay unless you are first, second or third in the sprint. I want to run the relays but it is clear that those who are fit are the ones who get to go.
Linn Svahn also does not want to ride 20 kilometers classically and above all not five miles in freestyle.
– It is the distance that I would never want to drive ever, she says to the evening newspaper.
– Maybe sometime for the sake of the challenge. But that’s the opposite of what I want to be good at. I don’t want to drive five miles just because. In order to stand out there, you have to niche yourself in that direction. Just like you have to do the other way around to do well in sprints.
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