It's about being the best when it matters. Just ask Ebba Andersson. The 27-year-old took the season's first World Cup victory in the World Championship rehearsal at home in Falun. It has really been a tough road back, she says to Viaplay.
SportsSki star Calle Halfvarsson is ready to operate on his back directly after the World Championship in Trondheim. If I feel that my back is not good during the World Championship, it's just as good to operate directly and skip the last competitions, he says.
SportsBoth William Poromaa and Ebba Andersson finished the National Championship with a form announcement. But the routine can be at least as important in the World Championship team to Trondheim. We must be prepared for an enormous pressure, says national team manager Anders Byström.
SportsOne day: an impressive podium finish. Next: fiasco. Oskar Svensson was eliminated already in the qualifying round in Saturday's World Cup sprint in Cogne.
SportsSweden's ladies are usually impossible to defeat in the sprint relay in the cross-country skiing World Championship. Now the streak is broken. Johanna Hagström and Maja Dahlqvist finished second behind Finland.
SportsThere will be no Edvin Anger on the starting line in Friday's team sprint in Italian Cogne.
SportsAfter the fiasco in the mass start over 20 kilometers in Switzerland, the Swedish men sharpened their skis. And thoroughly. This was probably the worst I've skied on under my feet in my entire life, says Edvin Anger, who became the best Swedish skier on a 24th place.
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