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Elvira Öberg steps into the biathlon World Cup in Friday’s sprint.
Then former national team rider Fredrik Lindström believes that it can be gold directly for the 25-year-old.
-She has every opportunity to become a World Cup queen, he tells the Sports Bible.
Due to a cold has Elvira Öberg25, not competed since January. As late as last week, she started training again. Anyone understands that it is not an optimal World Cup upload.
Elvira Öberg back in the World Cup sprint
As a result of Öberg being away very recently, she was petitioned in the premiere in the biathlon. The union captain Johannes Lukas chose to put her over her in the mixed relay and replaced her with Anna Magnusson. But Sweden’s biggest star on the women’s side is back on Friday when it is sprinted, 7.5 km.
– Now I feel good, it will be very fun to compete, she tells DN.
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Elvira is third in the total World Cup right now after winning four races, coming second once and third four times. Before her illness, the feeling was really that she would surely take a medal in the World Cup, but now she herself is not as safe.
– It’s hard to say, we’ll see. I think the body has answered very well, but then the recovery has not been as it is when it is at its best, she says.
One who, on the other hand, believes very much in Elvira Öberg is the former national team star and the Olympic gold medalist Fredrik Lindström35. In an interview with the Sports Bible, before the World Cup in Lenzerheide, he says that the form that Elvira showed a few weeks before the championship would be enough for a medal in any distance.
– Yes, so her skiing means that she has the chance all the time. It is the shooter that has been a bit up and down so there, but if you just have to take the short perspective here now with the competitions in Oberhof and Ruhpolding, then self -confidence seems to be back after a somewhat questionable competition there before, he says and continues:
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– I think she will be fatal in the World Cup. There is a lot of timing and self -confidence also just about the shooting. Only she can build on now on this feeling, she has every opportunity to become a World Cup queen really.
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