Linn Svahn is finally back.
But at the same time, she is critical of how her injury was handled.
– Someone should have stopped me, she says.
Linn Svahn has a place at the World Cup, and it will be her first major championship since the World Cup in Oberstdorf in 2021. She was the big favorite to win gold in the sprint then, but did not immediately have the optimal conditions.
Regrets the WC competition
In the general rope in Ulricehamn, Svahn fell, and the shoulder injury would prove to be more difficult to heal and handle than anyone could have imagined. Svahn was not herself during the WC, as she was hampered by the pain. But the fact that she even stood up may have had major consequences.
Svahn was later forced into surgery, and she didn’t make a comeback until this season, nearly two years later. Today, she regrets that she started at the WC.
– I was so focused on winning that WC gold. My shoulder hadn’t gotten any better, but I didn’t want to think that I was in pain. In retrospect, I see that I shouldn’t have started. It was very stupid. The injury in the shoulder got worse, she tells Norwegian TV2.
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“No one dared…”
At the same time, Linn Svahns is strongly critical of the fact that no one stepped in and stopped her, and is most likely referring to the Swedish national team.
– I don’t think anyone dared to stop me. It must have been difficult. It was probably not easy to place one of the country’s biggest hopes for gold at home in Sweden.
She is then asked if someone should have stopped her.
– Yes!
However, she believes that her long injury absence, with several operations, could have been avoided.
– It got worse because I was competing. It was longer lasting. But, to me it sounded like I wasn’t in pain. Knowing the consequences of that, I would never have competed.
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