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On Thursday, the sprint is decided in the World Cup and one of the advance favorites is Linn Svahn.
Now ski icon Johan Olsson tells how he thinks it goes for the 25-year-old in Trondheim.
– I know she is extremely good at doing the job, he tells the Sports Bible.
Due to a shoulder injury has Linn Svahn25, received previous World Cup spun. Both 2021 in Oberstdorf and 2023 in Planica, she was too affected by the injury and recovery after surgery. Now is the first time she really comes in to a World Cup and feels whole and healthy.
Linn Svahn about the press for the World Cup
She has previously told the Sports Bible that she does not immediately feel any pressure, even though she still has no championship medal on the track record.
– Don’t really feel so pressed. I don’t think I’ve had an honest chance for a single year. I just want to have the opportunity to drive if it for once would not be any problems before. Then of course there is something I want (medals). It is probably more with myself that it feels valuable and important than that I feel any pressure on the basis that it will not stand on my Wikipedia page, she says.
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Are you disappointed or angry if there is no medal?
– I don’t know, I think so because I think it means a lot to me. It still feels important every now and then. Then a week after I probably couldn’t care much more.
Johan Olsson’s words about Linn Svahn
It is mainly in Thursday’s sprint and the team sprint next Wednesday (March 5) that Linn Svahn has the greatest chance of taking medals. However, the former Olympic gold hero, now the Viaplay expert, does not believe Johan Olsson44, that Svahn will win the sprint.
– I think it’s Jonna Sundling Which becomes the World Cup queen with three golds, that is, she wins the sprint, the sprint relay and that she is part of the Swedish relay team that also wins the women’s relay, he tells the Sports Bible.
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However, he has something to say about Linn and her strength as cross -country skiers and elite athletes. And yes, he still believes in a gold medal for her in the World Cup.
– I think, or rather I know, that she is extremely good at doing the job, being there and being able to work without competing so to speak. Being able to do qualitative training. I think it is she who takes the gold with Jonna Sundling in the sprint relay, he says.
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