Swewi

Even if we ignore the political background, the war and past doping scandals, have these athletes really been tested under the same conditions as other athletes?

Wow that would be something of Canada would be represented by the 43rd best team on the World ranking!

That was something different from Karlsson compared to last week where she was worse than I think 8 other swedes and a polish skiier in the same discipline!

If we look at the 2022 olympics many of the medalists qualified with 5-4, including the scottish women who took gold (also the previous time Scottish women won gold in 2002, they did it with 5-4) - Women: Great Britain (gold) and Japan (silver) - Mixed Doubles: Sweden (bronze) - Men: Canada (bronze) and USA (4th)

15 years and just as far behind Karlsson as Karlsson was behind Andersson. That is huge!

Still old compared to the youngest ever finalists they plages against;)

Today as well with Sundling. Frida Karlsson however 10th place is worrying, but first time on snow this season I understood. the polish skiier impressed btw yesterday with 9th place who I understood just game back to skiing after A few years break

So Skistad planned for another yellow card to be disqualified and start of with a clean sheet at the World cup, instead she got a red card. A disquslification but she keeps the yellow one

Anger looking really strong, won mens race in Gällivare by 39 seconds but Poromaa is very worrying 1:20 behind

I don´t think Klaebo gets afraid but Anger looked strong, even if only compared to swedes and some americans and czech skiers. My only conclusion from these races are that young Grahn has taken major steps during the summer and that Dahlqvist is back where she was a few years ago. Also former junior star Myhlback looked very strong but was disqualified from the semi final after a false start because he had a yellow card from a roller ski race in August that he got because he raced without sunglasses and he didn´t knew that still counted. Skistad apparantly got a yellow card today so she has already said in interview she plans to get another one tomorrow so she will not have to brign the warning to the world cup..

Swedish Premiere in Gällivare. Sprint Men: 1. Anton Grahn 2. Edvin Anger 3. Jesper Persson Best non-swede: 4. JC Schoonmaker Sprint Women: 1. Maja Dahlqvist 2. Jonna Sundling 3. Nadine Faendrich

Two Swedish teams in semi finals We have 2300 licensed players and not known for our beaches. Åhman/Hellvig apparently had 2 hours of practice together in the last months.

Weird rules. Sweden still gets a playoff spot despite being absolutely terrible. Relegation to Nations League C apparently came with a bonus. Not that we’ll actually make it through the playoffs, but still... 😂

Hellvig has been injuried so they didn't expect to be in the best shape. But also remember they list 2 games in the groupies stage in Paris as well and it sent well after all😁 However I think the second Swedish team has better Chances actually.

Very odd to change from an at least in Sweden unique name to one of the most common and boring😅 I would have liked him to at least make one last effort to try to break the WR in 10 000m on a faster track because the Beijing track was definately not the best one.