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Johanna Hagström has got her really big break this season.
Now she says what she likes about one of the biggest rivals in the track: Kristine Stavås Skistad.
– All of us Swedes want to beat her, she tells the Sports Bible.
The World Cup in Trondheim was no fun event for Johanna Hagström26. At least not purely in terms of competition. She admittedly came in four in the prologue, went on from the quarterfinals and looked for a long time to move on from the seminar as well. Then she suddenly rolled in in the last curve and missed a final place.
Johanna Hagström’s sad World Cup
It was a disappointed Johanna Hagström who talked to Sportbladet afterwards.
– Today I aimed to go as a winner and put myself in good positions so that I could have the opportunity. I still think I did, but I was joking it away to myself, she said.
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That was the only thing Johanna had to do in Trondheim. She was not at any other distance. It was a snowy end for her.
– I don’t know what happened like, flip, so I stumbled or got stuck with one ski and so I lay down in the snow. So incredibly boring. I would rather have been because I had not been able to or that I had been sprinkled than to go away myself. Then I may not think that I would have had so much to do with medals and so in the final, but it is clear that you always want to the final, she said.
Hagström about Kristine Stavås Skistad
On Wednesday night, the World Cup makes its second last stop for this season. There will be a city sprint in Estonian Tallinn. A chance for Johanna Hagström to deliver a new pallet place – she took her career’s first World Cup victory in Ruka in November – then for example Jonna Sundling and Linn Svahn Missing.
However, another big rival comes to start. Norwegian Kristine Stavås Skistad, 26, who came second on the sprint in the World Cup. Now Johanna tells the Sports Bible what she really likes about Stavås Skistad.
– Yes, but it is clear that she is a big competitor. Absolutely. All of us Swedes want to beat her, she says and continues:
– I haven’t talked to her so much, she’s a little shy maybe. But she seems very kind and nice and everything like that. So yes, she is good at going sprint too.
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