The gaze is heavy but the voice is steady and stubborn as Andersson is forced to recount, time and again, the fall, the panic and the emotions when a likely gold medal slipped away in Val di Fiemme.
"A nightmare. I wish no one else would experience it," she told the press after the race.
She put everything on herself; she was too passive in the downhill and that's how it went.
"I can't blame anyone else for it. I was a little too cowardly, a little too tired to act completely smart then and there."
“Part of the game”
The same questions also recur at the press conference, which she endures.
"It's a struggle. I have to fight just to sit here. But it's part of the game and you just have to be as tough as you can in this situation."
"At first I thought I could fix it (the ski) myself, but then I just tried to walk as fast as I could down the hill to one of the trainers who came running with a new one. Then I just tried to minimize the disaster that had already happened," says Andersson.
Men's coach Lars Ljung became a hero in the midst of adversity.
"I didn't see it myself, but I understood that something had happened, so I just ran as fast as I could. You run in some kind of rush - you get stressed, just like Ebba is," says Ljung.
Hesitant about the 50 km?
In her grief, she even tries to question whether she will make it to the Swedish 50 km team next Sunday.
"At the same time, I know that the 50 km normally suits me well, so hopefully I'm one of the four," she says.
It's a week away anyway and plenty of time to recharge. Step one is to go back to the hotel.
"To take a shower and wash away all the bad feelings for today."
And at least she didn't hurt herself in the fall.
"The body is okay, but not the heart," says Andersson.
