– She should not have been given the opportunity here. She has skied completely miserably and was on average 1.16 behind in the cross-country time. I don’t understand why she is going to the World Cup, says Ola Lunde. The news expert has just seen Stina Nilsson shoot five misses and finish number 64 in the sprint in Pokljuka on Thursday. Now he has had enough. MISERABLE: news expert Ola Lunde is critical of Stina Nilsson. Photo: Vidar Ruud / news – She has had enough chances now and should go to the IBU Cup. Today it didn’t look like she had the World Cup level in her, but the Swedes obviously have faith in her, says Lunde. news’s new biathlon expert, Harri Luchsinger, also thinks it is time for a change in the Swedish team after Nilsson has not delivered a single top 30 result in the world cup this year. – She clearly does not have the level in her and should be moved down to the IBU Cup to experience some mastery and build some confidence at the second highest level, says Luchsinger. – Never secure, Nilsson himself just wants to forget the shooting on Thursday. – In standing shooting, it’s about being able to dive down and take it easy, but today it wasn’t like that. It was “a bit jerky”, I just wanted to get out of there and go skiing again. It took a lot of time in the penalty rounds, and I certainly won’t take that with me from today, says Nilsson to news. Almost three years after she announced the change from cross-country skiing to biathlon, the Swedish star has not been completely comfortable on the shooting range. PALL JUBILEE: After the sprint in Kontiolahti last year, Nilsson could celebrate the first podium of his career in biathlon. Photo: VESA MOILANEN / AFP – I think there are few people who are 100 percent confident in their position. Sometimes when I do well, I’m never safe. I want to work hard to make it feel stable, she says. With only cross-country skis on her legs, she was a medal wholesaler and with a total of 12 Olympic and World Cup medals as a 26-year-old, there were many who were skeptical about the change of sport. At the same time, there were those who thought that she could develop into a new Magdalena Forsberg, who had a great career as a biathlete after switching from cross-country skiing. But the result so far is one podium, a ticket to the Olympics and a series of weak results. The most surprising thing has been that she has struggled to keep up with the cross-country times of the fastest biathletes. – There have been many ups and downs. I left cross-country skiing with quite a few question marks about skiing with weapons. But now I feel that I can put shooting aside a bit, because it is fundamental in biathlon that one should be able to do well in the track as well, says Nilsson. – Not as expected Luchsinger believes that Nilsson’s development has been anything but what the Swedes dreamed of. – Her development has only gone downhill. She had ten misses at the hunt start in Annecy before Christmas, so it doesn’t work for her. It is very disappointing. There is a lot of pressure of expectation on her, so she may be affected by it, the expert speculates. SKUFFA: news expert Harri Luchsinger believes that Nilsson’s development has only gone downhill since last year. Photo: Even Bjøringsøy Johnsen / news The Swedes’ national team coach, Johannes Lukas, was pleased with last year’s season for Nilsson, but admits that this season has been tough. – It has not been quite as we had imagined and not as she had expected of herself, but it is a very difficult and high level here. We haven’t been able to perform both on the track and in the shooting, but we just have to keep working and wait until the day both parts agree, says Lukas. If it will be in the World Cup, or in the IBU Cup, which news’s experts believe is the right arena, Lukas will not say much about it. – We have a clear plan for him. It was good for her to go here, and we have not decided what we will do after this. We will take it day by day, and we will probably know before Sunday, says the coach. – What does he have to perform to get a WC place? – The WC is a bit far away, we have had a lot of illness in the squad and that can change very quickly. First, it is important that everyone is healthy and fit again, and can last until the World Cup and later we make the decision about the World Cup squad, concludes Lukas, who has to manage without Hanna Öberg, who is ill this week. You can watch the rest of the Biathlon World Cup from Pokljuka on news. On Friday, the men’s sprint will take place at 14.20 with the broadcast starting at 14.00 on news 1.
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