The Swede made a gross mistake, tore off his helmet, and showed his disappointment in several ways. In something that most resembled fury, he broke both his poles and threw away his helmet in the goal area.
It was a bit of frustration. I wanted to show something today, so it was a bit that needed to come out after that run, actually, he says to Radiosporten.
Jakobsen came to the World Championship in top form. A few days ago, he had the fastest time in the slalom in the team combination. But, as so many times before in his career, he ended up on the wrong side of the sport's fine margins.
"A lot of skiing in me"
I knew already before that it was a course that didn't suit me, but I tried to do my run. I had a lot of skiing in me today. I had wished that I could show more, he says.
Jakobsen, who finished eleventh in the slalom in Saalbach, had the fastest first intermediate time when he came in too tight to a gate.
The veteran has still not managed to get down from a World Championship slalom.
The setbacks for the Swedish World Championship hopes in the technical disciplines continued into the last competition day. Earlier, both Sara Hector and Anna Swenn Larsson had failed in their signature events, giant slalom and slalom.
A Swedish bronze
Sweden did, however, bring home a medal from the World Championship. Hector, Jakobsen, Estelle Alphand, and Fabian Ax Swartz started the championship with a bronze in the team event in parallel giant slalom.
The Frenchman Clément Noël led after the first slalom run, but skied out in the second.
The World Championship gold was instead won by the Swiss Loïc Meillard, his second in Saalbach after the victory in the team combination.
The Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath took silver, the German Linus Strasser bronze.
