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The biathlon World Cup is running in Lenzerheide.
And what a super drama it became directly in the first race.
Now national team coach Johannes Lukas gives his brutally honest judgment on the Swedish effort.
The skirting World Cup 2025 in Swiss Lenzerheide went a completely crazy start to the championship. The mixed relay as a premiere race was transformed into a real super drama and Sweden was involved in everything.
Double accidents
Already on the first stretch fell Anna Magnusson In an incident along with the French Julia Simon. She lost a lot of placements and then had to fight back.
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At the same time as Simon was impressive enough to switch as a leader after a proper catch up. Sweden did its very best with Hanna ÖbergThe Martin Ponsiluoma and Sebastian Samuelsson on subsequent distances.
Johannes Luka’s words
Before the very last rally, they also had a small chance at the World Cup bronze but in the last curve Samuelsson also fell. It eventually became a fifth place for our blue-yellow riders in the World Cup premiere.
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Immediately after the race, the national team coach gives Johannes Lukas his brutally honest judgment on the Swedish effort on the baton.
– Yes, today we have probably had all the things that you do not want to bring with you. I’ve never been to this. Two cases, one broken ski and that we still fight our way back and fight for a pallet site is very good. There are many good things we can take with us. But with a normal race it would have been very possible today, so is biathlon, he says in the SVT broadcast.
– Look at Norway as well (became four), not all favorites that succeed today. Now we are up and running and you have to relax a little neighbor. It is clear that you get annoyed but now it is calmer. And we have to work for real.
Immediately after the finish, Lukas was very annoyed and the interview therefore had to wait until he cooled the mood.
– No, I have a lot of temperament and I have invested everything I have for this team. Those minutes were not fun at all, of course. Now you have landed in it and there is much we can take with us, he tells the TV channel.
– The accident between Anna and Julia is something that happens, obviously unlucky that you break skiing and she loses a lot in the second lap. But we struggled back and “Ponsi” does it amazingly well, even “Sebbe” keeps it all the way to the end. Although he falls at the end, but this is the last time he does, I can promise.
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