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There were four medals for the Swedish ladies in the World Cup – but for the gentlemen things went much worse.
The gold jump Sebastian Samuelsson is really disappointed in himself.
– I don’t think I get an approved championship, he tells Sportbladet.
The biathlon World Cup is over and for Sweden there were four medals, which actually results in a third place in the medal league after France and Norway. Elvira Öberg took a gold and a silver in mass start and hunting start respectively, Ella Halvarsson Got her big championship break when she took silver in the distance race and then the ladies also took bronze in the relay. Significantly worse it went for the gentlemen …
No Swedish men’s medals in the World Cup
In fact, there was no medal at all for the Swedish gentlemen. It was perhaps anyway in the relay, where Sweden was the reigning world champion, but in the end they missed the pallet by the smallest possible margin. Sebastian SamuelssonThe Martin PonsiluomaThe Viktor Brandt and Jesper Nelin Ended four.
For Sebastian Samuelsson, it might take extra hard to leave Swiss Lenzerheide completely medalless. He has been going well in the World Cup this year and was Sweden’s big gold jump together with Elvira Öberg.
– I’m here to fight for medals. I have 13 championship medals so if I do not fight for the medals then it is too bad. Sure I am disappointed not to be closer than I am, he tells Sportbladet after the championship.
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In Sunday’s mass start, Samuelsson finished twelve. Among other things, there were three booms in the standing shooter.
– It’s too bad, I don’t get it. It is stupid to stand here and talk about being shooting well at training, because it doesn’t matter. But I think I should cope with it much better in a competition situation than I do right now, he says.
Samuelsson’s thoughts on his World Cup effort
This is how Sebastian Samuelsson sums up the biathlon World Cup for his own part:
– It is clear that I get into the tagged and then I get a tough first weekend, especially purely physically. Then it becomes difficult, it’s like I get a little unsure. I try to reload and I think I do well, but I’m not really there 110 percent.
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– I put a lot of pressure on myself and have high demands on myself. Now I have loaded seven times in twelve days or what it is … It is clear that it is a mental load, absolutely. But there is something that I can do I think. I don’t think I get an approved championship. Obviously it would have been much more fun if things had been better. It’s as it is and life goes on, he continues.
We suffer with you, Sebastian! We understand that you are disappointed in yourself right now, but it is just to take a new hold!
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