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Biathlon rolls on when it was time for the men’s relay.
Then Sweden pushed away immediately – and really.
– You cook, says Peppe Femling.
No, it was not Sweden’s day when the men’s biathlon team set out on the track in the relay in Kontiolahti. The quartet with Peppe Femling, Jesper Nelin, Martin Ponsiluoma and Sebastian Samuelsson had to see the competition end before it had even started.
Get away immediately
Peppe Femling was first on the track for the Swedish part, and it certainly started well. Femling was in the lead before the first prone shooting – then he shot quickly, fully and went out as the leader before the standing shooting. But then something happened.
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Five misses and two penalty rounds later, the top positions were gone for Sweden, since Femling didn’t get the extra shots sorted either.
– It’s good night for Sweden, says the commentator Ola Branholm in SVT.
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Coach Jean-Marc Chabloz tried to sum up Femling’s shooting streak, but it wasn’t entirely easy.
– The board is too small to show where the barriers were. It was a bad series, he panicked a bit. He tried to pull himself together but this was no good. He starts badly and then you think too much, that’s how it is, says Chabloz in the broadcast.
“I don’t know what I’m doing”
Peppe Femling himself was upset to say the least after the fad, and criticized himself.
– You cook, after all. I don’t really know what I’m doing, I need to focus more on myself perhaps, he says.
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Jesper Nelin also had a tough day on the shooting range, and shot two misses in his first shoot which meant that a potential Swedish miracle pickup was completely written off.
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On the fourth and last stretch, however, Sebastian Samuelsson gave the best effort of all and was able to drive Sweden up to tenth place, which they also finished in. Norway won before Germany and France.