The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) condemns the decision to award the World Weightlifting Championships to Russia. However, a boycott is not an option. “We will support him in every way we can,” says Fredrik Joulamo, acting secretary general of the SOC.
SportsWeightlifting is opening its doors to Russia in earnest - becoming the first Olympic sport to do so. The 2030 World Championships will be held in Moscow. “I’m shocked,” says Helene Johage, chair of the Swedish Weightlifting Association, to TT.
SportsThe development has been lightning fast in just over six months. Can Sarah Sjöström be even better after giving birth than before? I have seen several times how mothers come back to the same level and become better than they were before, says Lykke Tamm, chief physician at the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK).
SportsTwo athletes have chosen to leave the Swedish national team in a short period of time. It is something we must take very seriously in Swedish sports," says David Fridell, general secretary of the Swedish Athletics Federation, to DN.
SportsDavid Thid, ranked third in Sweden in the 400-meter hurdles, is leaving the Swedish national team to represent Thailand instead. "A big loss for Swedish athletics," says national team captain Kajsa Bergqvist in a press release from the Swedish Athletics Federation.
SportsAt the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Armand Duplantis could be up against Russian pole vaulters. That's what the Swede is critical of. "I don't understand it, quite honestly," he tells SVT.
SportsRussian athletes are allowed to participate in the Olympics regardless of political stance, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces. "Hasty" and "unfounded," Ukraine says. A very sad and unfortunate decision, says Hans von Uthmann, chairman of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK), to TT.
SportsÅsa Edlund Jönsson is leaving her job as secretary general of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK). “It has been an incredibly rewarding time,” she said in a press release.
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