Klæbo was once again totally superb and could cheer for WC gold in the sprint on Thursday. After the race, the Swedish runner Calle Halfvarsson is disappointed on his own behalf. He finished fifth in the final. – I am completely out of energy. I think I have taken in too little, says Calle Halfvarsson to news shortly after the finish line. In fact, the lack of nutrition before the final was what separated him from Klæbo, Halfvarsson believes. – I think I was a bit blind to it. I thought that I was going to float on what I had, and that I was going to fight Klæbo on the run. But I had a blast there, says Halfvarsson. And adds: – I did so well in the quarter and semi that I didn’t think I should replenish my energy. It felt good, but in the final it was heavy. – You think an energy bar was the difference? – Yes, I think so, unfortunately, says the Swede. LOW ENERGY: Swedish Calle Halfvarsson was completely out of energy in the sprint final. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB – I don’t believe that he has said that The statements that it was only a lack of support that separated him from Klæbo are causing a stir in the Norwegian WC camp. Silver winner Pål Golberg is stunned by the Swede’s statements. – No, I don’t believe that he has said that, says Golberg to news’s reporter. – He has said it. – Then he probably said it in affect. It was tough for Calle, he had the opportunity of all time. He will come back stronger, replies Golberg. – Thin excuse Håvard Solås Taugbøl, who had his sprint ruined after being felled by Swedish Marcus Grate, also does not believe that Halfvarsson means what he says. – It’s probably a relatively thin excuse, I think. Regardless of what he had absorbed between the semi-final and the final, I think he had struggled (with Klæbo), says Taugbøl to news. Klæbo’s gold is his seventh in a World Cup context, and according to NTB, it was Norway’s 160th gold medal in the Skiing World Cup in Nordic disciplines throughout history. After the impressive performance, Klæbo was both touched and relieved. – It is big. The WC is always big. I think no matter how you twist and turn it, I wouldn’t wish for anyone to have it the way we have it in the days before the World Cup. It’s absolutely terrible. I hate the cold state I’m in then, but now it’s good. Now you can lower your shoulders, says Klæbo to news. He describes the charge for the WC as not having control over his own body. – You have no idea what the shape is like and everything is uncertain. So the fact that you get that confirmation that the form is good, and that things feel good, is very good in terms of what will happen for the rest of the championship, says Klæbo. – Impressive with so much grinning The gold winner is careful to praise Pål Golberg, who could cheer for an impressive silver in the WC sprint. Klæbo describes it as great that Golberg ended up with a medal. – Although I haven’t been involved in gatherings that much during the summer and autumn, I know what a job Pål and the team have done, says Klæbo. After the race, there were many emotions at once for Golberg, who had to shed a few tears in the first interview with news. – It was impressive to get so much laughter in such a short interview. No, it was a big day that first dawned on me when I got talking to Ida (news reporter Ida Nysæter Rasch) there, says Golberg. – What makes you moved? – It is the whole spectrum of what we are doing, that it is such a short way from top to bottom. I myself have felt a lot at the bottom in championships, today I was full. Even a broken strap in the final couldn’t stop me, so it was a lot of fun. – Broken strap? – Yes, I smoked the stop on the pole after 40 seconds in the final, so I went and held the cork for the last two and a half minutes. It wasn’t optimal, but the adrenaline and the legs took me in, he says. On Friday, three miles await with a change of skis.
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