He failed to silence Trondheim.
But probably William Poromaa’s World Cup silver felt on the five-mile, behind an extraterrestrial Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, almost like a gold.
– I will never forget this day, says Poromaa.
In the end, Willliam Poromaa had shaken off all but one. Unfortunately, it was the one you would most like to avoid a riot. On a boiling Granåsen, Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo sprinted down Poromaa and made sure to sweep clean in the championship with six straight World Cup golds.
I understood that if he is in the last hill, it will be impossible to leave him. Everything can happen, he can fall or whatever. But I mean, I go towards the world’s best cross -country skiers of all time and still participate and challenge all the way. Damn, he’s cruel, says William Poromaa.
Huge public sea
It sparkles about the 24-year-old Swede. He smiles so broadly that it feels like he is a new world champion. Maybe it feels so when you have just taken the career’s first World Cup silver and Sweden’s noblest men’s medal in ten years.
I am incredibly proud. You have dreamed about this. And to do this in Trondheim – I will never forget this day. It was totally sick, says Poromaa.
The men’s five -mile in freestyle offered an audience frame that goes to history. In addition to the close to 30,000 spectators inside the World Cup arena Granåsen, the entire forest was filled with people. More than 100,000 ski lovers are said to have lined the track.
William Poromaa just shakes his head for the experience. The second half of the race was he alone against four Norwegians in the fight for the medals, where Simen Hegstad Krüger finally took the bronze.
It is difficult to take in how many people it is. And when you go with the Norwegians and it just roars and are rockets and they wash beer at one. It was magical, says Poromaa.
Did you then feel that you wanted to sabotage the party?
So it was. I got so damn much energy from it. You feel like a sheep among the wolves.
Light in the dark
Sweden’s gentlemen have some results in terms of dark years behind them. When William Poromaa took the World Cup bronze on the five-mile in Planica two years ago, it was the first Swedish men’s medal in the World Cup since 2017.
Therefore, it was no wonder that the men’s coach Lars Ljung burst into big gray after Poromaa’s silver. In Trondheim, the Swedish gentlemen have also taken two bronze, in sprint relay and relay.
Yes, fuck. There was a lot to take in. It was emotional, says Lars Ljung.
For the home World Cup in Falun 2027, the blue-yellow gentlemen should be even better, he says.
The future looks bright. We have an exciting generation that is inspired by this too, and feel that “can William so I can”. You know that if you hang out with William you hang with a World Cup medalist. It is also important.