HOLMENKOLLEN (Dagbladet): Emil Hegle Svendsen was a beaten man after finishing in 17th place in yesterday’s World Cup sprint. Trønder told Dagbladet that he thought it was embarrassing not to be able to deliver and that final round simply made him embarrassed.
Today finishes However 30-year-old back. Svendsen went a totally brilliant run and went up from 17th place to bronze in the national system.
– It was not exactly embarrassing today, Emil?
– No, it was much better today, that was it. It feels like a great personal victory to come back. It’s not as easy as people might think. The psychological affects everything you do and then it’s hard to get out of such a vicious spiral. I felt like I took a good step in the right direction today, he says to Dagbladet.
– It felt very much better than yesterday. There was a big difference and I had a good feeling. I knew that it was easier. There is something waiting for that to happen, he added.
– Much uncertainty
trøndere understand however how the shape could be so enormously much better today. He says much about the setting.
– There has been much confusion in the winter and it did not exactly on what happened yesterday. There were many black thoughts, but I had decided before the World Cup that I should dig down in the same way as earlier this winter. It was one of my tasks before the World Cup. Although striving and are hurting at times, so it feels good when you get it back, he said.
Svendsen admits he feared the worst yesterday, namely disease:
– I am overjoyed that there is something wrong, because you feel that it’s there. That there is disease or something. I was dizzy for a long time after I crossed the finish line yesterday. It is strange, but today it was much better. I was quite worried yesterday.
Knocked Thingnes Bo
Today he went almost a perfect race and ended therefore the bronze. Whatever Martin Fourcade and incredible Ole Einar Bjørndalen was little to do with.
Svendsen landed instead in a duel with team mate Johannes Thingnes Bø on the last lap. There was thus Trønder strongest, and referred brother Bo to the bitter 4th place for the second straight day.
Svendsen let Thingnes Bo go almost all the final round, but struck on the last surface before the run.
– I was glad that John would go. He showed some signs of being a little tired at the top of the slopes, so then I knew I was going to try to turn to on the surface. I’ve done that before too and it has funka good. I guess it did today too, he says.
– I had gone if he had insisted, but he let himself in front and went and I was grateful. When we went out on the last lap I thought that it could just as easily be 4th place. I am incredibly happy that I managed to hang on, he adds.
– Worst thing that can happen
Emil Hegle Svendsen said before the World Cup that the worst that would happen was that Martin Fourcade (27) was VM king. The Frenchman has already three gold and Svendsen admitted that his rival’s grand slam pain.
– That Fourcade gets VM king is the worst that can happen, so we’ll try to give him battle on what remains and see if we can correct some of the impression, he said.
– I like obviously not that Fourcade has three gold, of course not. My goal is to be in the top. My goal is to fight with him and I know that I’m good enough. I’ll just get me back on track and then I’ll be there, he adds.
– Taking him in turn
About Svendsen would meet Fourcade to duel on the last lap at mass start, he knows what it takes.
– I saw that he went well (in the last hill) in the mixed relay, so I will certainly not say that I had broken him there. He goes well in the ground, but I think I hit him on the turn and onto the surface before the last turn. We’ll see if I get the opportunity to do so. It had been lovely to meet him that way, he says, adding:
– It was always bloody if he wins the rest of the World Cup as well, so we should do everything we can to beat him.
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