Daniel Ståhl had his best throw ruled out.
Afterwards, his coach criticizes the organizer.
– It will be strange and boring, says Åke Ruus.
Daniel Ståhl was world number one when he entered this year’s World Cup final, but he was perhaps not the biggest favorite. During the season, it is the Slovenian Kristjan Ceh who has been the most even and thrown at the highest level during the season, and it was also he who would pinch the gold medal.
Great criticism
For Daniel Ståhl, who won Olympic gold last summer, it was not even the podium. His best throw came in the third round when he got away with the two-kilo piece 69.16 meters. But after a while the news came that Ståhl, during the throw, threw outside the ring and that the result was deleted. Ståhl never recovered from the defeat, and he eventually finished fourth.
However, Ståhl was in an unexpectedly good mood afterwards, but his temporary coach during the World Cup, Åke Ruus, was not as bubbly. He believes that the organizer should have handled the whole thing better, and given the message immediately. Instead, it took a while.
– When you delete a result afterwards like that, then it must be clear. But this time we received no information, he says to Expressen and continues:
– It gets a little strange and boring in the competition when you do that. It completely destroys the competition rhythm, it’s a bit like BEING in football nowadays.
“They did not understand”
Ruus believes that it was not only he who received the message late. Most people inside the arena in Eugene, USA, did not understand anything.
– The audience did not understand and there were a lot of people who came forward afterwards and asked what had happened. Other practitioners’ coaches and so on.
Ruus believes that Ståhl took it all well during the competition, but that it is difficult to adjust after such an event.
– He was calm. He said he would throw longer, but it’s not that easy.
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