Swewi

World title no. 8 for Edin! What a championship performer. 9th at the olympics and have fallen down to 13 on the ranknings, Barely qualifying for the slams anymore. Could make you think they had a bad season but they still got the european and World title😄

7 ender by Edin against Czechia! nice to see them back again, even if the competition might be a bit lower than in olympics.

I think definately with 48 teams it is not too many with 16. however I can accept that Swedens route was not deserved. The problem (or good for Sweden) is that they award teams in Europa league C division. Iof we did not fail in the B division we would probably not have won a playoff spot from B league. Maybe a Genius move from our former national coach😂

Women sprint: Classic 1. Sundling 2. Svahn 3. Dahlqvist men sprint 1. Häggström 2. Grahn 3. Svensson women 10 km free individual start: 1. Sundling 2. Ilar 3. Andersson (ni Karlsson starting) men 10 km free: 1. Johansson 2. Eriksson 3. Gisselman

Swedish nationals so far: winning relay teams (3 per team) men: Jonas Eriksson, Jonathan Lindberg, Anthon Grahn a team consisting of 2/3 of the olympic relay team (Anger/Poromaa) only third. women: Lisa Eriksson, Ebba Andersson, Jonna Sundling -- women 20 km mass start: 1. Jonna Sundling 2. Frida Karlsson 3. Ebba Andersson men 20 km mass start: 1. Jonathan Lindberg 2. Gustaf Berglund 3. Johan Ekberg Edvin Anger who made the podium in WC on the same distance in Rula ended up 28th..

Swedish nationals sprint: women: 1 Elvira Öberg 2. Linn Gestblom 3. Hanna Öberg men: 1. Oscar Andersson 2. Martin Ponsilouma 3. Erik Larsson national team did not deliver on mens side

Congrats Diggins, well deserved! 👏 Too bad she fell on the last lap in the last race (as well as Karlsson also did x2). For the future I would really like them to remove the bonus sprint points suring the race that almost makes more importance to the overall standings than the positions over the finish line. And get back to the same point system as the other FIS events. 30 gets points instead on 50, and 100-80-60... instead of this system. in this case Diggins deserves it and Sweden who of different reasons have missed pets of the season On purpose or not, does not deserve it. But it as it is now it may take 20 wins to catch up for one missed race (if the opponent is 2nd in each). Dahlqvist won the sprint cup without any individual wins (3rd overall) is one example of that. There must be room to miss a race of any reason. If not, it Will not make people race more events, instead it might make skoters who already missed one weekend feel they are already too far behind so they light as well take less priority on the rest of the World cup season. Also skiiers who in Norway for example would be good enough for a top3 in the overall might not even be selected for many races due to the internal competition. Same for a skiier like Ebba Andersson who most likely would not qualify if she would be selected to go a sprint race. But she would still get a few points probably for rk 31-50, but because she would not make it in to the Swedish sprint team she Will lose a lot even compared to those who fail the sprint qualifications. Frida Karlsson another example, she would also probably have qualified most of the times but is most often not good enough to make the team. With more award to winning and making podiums and also less athletes scoring that would make it better I think. The scoring system in biathlon got some critics when they decided you have to count all races, but they at least increased the value of top positions meaning you could faster catch up a bad race/missed race, by a few podiums.

Maybe not the most Nice sprint finish I have seen by Hanna, but not the worse I have seen in biathlok either and at least Simon admits she would have Done the same in that position

Great to see Linn shine after all her struggle for the past years! great to see the Swedish men starting to improve as well. Not spoiled with that. And nice ending for Pellegrino too!

They should have 2 weeks in North america every year! Biathlon too

I am of course happy with that Sweden for the first time wins the womens nations cup but I must still question the rules. They don´t count scores from pursuits or mass starts to the nations cup because they consider it´s unfair when all countries don´t have 3 or more athletes starting, but somehow they consider it is fair to include mixed relays and let male performances affect the ranking for women and the vice versa.So thanks to a mans disqualification (Jaqueline in the last single mixed) Sweden won the womens nations cup. Now I think Sweden would have won anyway if all mixed relays would have been discounted from the womens team ranking but still a bit weird to see how his failure had that impact on the womens cup.

Yeah I guess Weng and Slind Will be gone. Diggins retiring now after this season final. Frida Karlsson, Maja Dahlqvist and Moa Ilar have Said they Will most likely not continue after Falun 2027 (Frida is not even that old so I hope she changes her mind). Sundling is 31 but I could see her Continue actually. She has the potential to be a Björgen. Sprinter who can start dominate in distance after 30 +. Interesting that, also for men, it is quite many nations that are successful on junior and u23 level

After Falun in the 50km race in Holmenkollen Ebba Andersson Will miss the World cup finals. most likely Klaebo Will do the same after the fall in Drammen

Gabriel Gledhill (GBR) who was seen drafting behind Diggins during the race apparantly was drunk under the race as he accepted 10-12 beers and 5-6 shots from the attendees besides the course.

Triple for the Swedish ladies and none of those 3 raced the 50k in the olympics and Norwegian 1-8 on the mens side..

I think our main problem is that most swedes have difficulties with the altitude. Ponsilouma one of few exceptions. Elvira Öberg and Sebastian Samuelsson in particular have shown this many times. Sebastians 5th place in sprint was by far his best performance ever in Antholz as an example. Öbergs skipped Nove mesto to get some extra time on altitude agerad of the games but even that didnt help. then another factor is also that we bad skis in many (not all) races as well which was surprising because usually I think we have a much better wax team in biathlon than XC but not in the olympics.

Also Hanna would have won the globe if her sister didn't win today 😅

Skidskyttekampen - exhibition single mixed relay with many of the best just now from Stockholm Olympic stadium: https://www.svtplay.se/video/KRozgr3/skidskyttekampen/skidskyttekampen

Oh how I don't like the Falun stadium and its courses 🙃

I think the weather gods missed out on the news about Stockholm losing this voting because Stockholm had the best winter weather for many years during the last weeks, just for it to melt away immediately after the closing ceremony

What about her view on putting handball etc to winter and remove bob/skeleton/nordic combins etc?

Ben Hebert: "... We have a hockey mentality on our curling team, we’re not going to be bullied and pushed over by a bunch of Swedish guys out there that are getting their a**es handed to them." “We didn’t have any of that, we finished at the top of the podium with the gold and they finished dead last, so I think that says a lot.” Hebert is long known in curling media circles for not being afraid to speak his mind, and he didn’t let up in his ire when it came to the genesis of the entire situation -- Eriksson. “That snake in the grass,” Hebert said. “The stuff he tried to pull at the Olympics is not very Olympia of him… I lost a lot of respect for him with the stuff he tried to pull. He’s won the Olympics, they’ve won Grand Slams, they’ve won World Championships, and when they were at the high of their peak, you never saw that stuff from him. These last two or three years, they’ve been on a brutal stretch and pretty irrelevant in the curling world, haven’t won anything, they’re out of the Grand Slams, dead last in the Olympics puts a stamp on that.."

My proposal: Skimo: Only a long distance race Freestyle skiing: remove dual moguls or make it somehow different than regular moguls Like more focus in first to finish than technical score, otherwise it doesnt fit for a parallell format. Remove team events in freestyle. Alpine skiing: take back individual combined and remove the team event (but if they keep it, only allow one team/nation) Curling: consider to include a singles skills event Cross country skiing: can be kept it as it is but if they would consider removing team sprint, replace with having one sprint of each style. They could also make 50 km as individual start, and skiathlon should change order of free/classical between each championship. Luge/skeleton/bob: remove relays. There is already team events (2men/4men) Figure skating: remove team event Speed skating: replace team Pursuit with a relaty format. Remove mass start. Short track: remove some events, maybe relay, maybe 1000m or something. Biathlon: like the current programme but to be honest (and my proposal might be controversial) the Pursuit is maybe the best event showtime who is best actuslly over 6 shootings and in a combination of individual start and head to head but it is strange to give out medals for both sprint and for a following race with handicap start. Like the winner of round Robin curling would get a gold and then a new good in playoffs. Why not have a Pursuit based on a shooting contest or something instead of a previous medal event? Consider to include new sport: Bandy

Swiss women has been in the playoffs 2002,2006,2010,2014,2022 and 2026 and every time they have lost their final game, the golf medal or the Bronze medal game. Silver,silver,4th,4th,4th,silver sweden on the other hand won the finals in 2006,2010,2018,2026 and won the Bronze games in 1998 and 2022. Only exception is losing the gold game 2014

Yes definately an important shot after Sofias guard. fun fact about Agnes, she and Anna was born on the same day at the same hospital! Nothing did they know about their future together. Another fun fact, Agnes son is just a few days older than my daughter. Nothing do they know that we have Said that they Will be a mixed doubles pair in the future😄