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Maja Dahlqvist, cross-country skiing
– I peed myself during the race. I didn’t have time to go to the bathroom before. It was kind of the first long run I did. I thought I’d give myself a good pep up and drank copious amounts – but I was wearing a full suit so it wasn’t that quick to get it off. I was a junior, maybe 19 years old. It was the Årefjällsloppet, or something like that. No World Cup competition.
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Albin Holmgren, hump run
– It must have been last season, when I rode parallel to the guy who is the best. Then I crashed after the first jump. Then I still wanted to finish the ride even though he had already won, because it was in Deer Valley and then there are a lot of people down there. Then I crashed again on the second jump and slid over the finish line. I wasn’t cocky then. You get there with snow under your glasses and have to go down and be ashamed. It wasn’t fun (laughs).
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Anna Swenn-Larsson, alpine
– In the World Cup in Kranjska Gora a few years ago, I had said that I would take the racing skis to the start and then I forgot them. It was clumsy. Usually the service man takes them up, but we had agreed that I would take them, but then I was so focused that I just went up to the start. I didn’t know where I had put them either, but up there my serviceman said “I’ll go down, if I can get up then I can get up”. He made it. But there were only two riders left when I got them!
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Martin Ponsiluoma, biathlon
– It was at the end of the season in Oslo a number of years ago. I ran the first leg of a men’s relay and did everything I could on the first lap, and then had nothing left … so I switched between the last teams.
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Jonna Sundling, cross-country skiing
– When I was little, I went wrong once. I still regret that. It was a youth competition in Lycksele. Otherwise, I have a hard time coming up with anything straight forward.
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Jesper Tjäder, freeskiing
– You have forgotten things, you have. Once I went to the USA to compete and had no gloves with me. Then I had to borrow a friend’s gloves, which were huge. It was a bit difficult to grab (the way to grab the skis in the air) with those gloves, so it was a miss.
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Hanna Aronsson Elfman, alpine
– It was at USM in Kiruna, where I lost a rod. God, that’s probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. There was like a hole in the starting house where we were standing. Dad said “don’t drop the stick now, hold on to the sticks”. “Yes,” I said. But then when there were three or four riders before I was going to drive like that, the pole went down. Then I had to borrow a little guy’s poles, they were like 1.10 I think – I probably had 1.20. That competition probably didn’t go quite as I had imagined.
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Rasmus Stegfeldt, humpback slope
– I am not known for having good equipment with me. So I’ve had skis that didn’t work when I was supposed to start and then I had to go to the hotel room and get new ones ten minutes before the start. But it actually went well, it went almost all the way. I thought that now I have an excuse if things go badly and then it actually felt a little nicer to go (laughs).
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Linn Svahn, cross-country skiing
– I missed the start once. The start was moved forward and I didn’t know that so I missed the start. It was a team sprint. I was maybe ten years old. It was horrible. Since then I have had nightmares about missing the start.
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Sebastian Samuelsson, biathlon
– Shot three penalty rounds in prone shooting in a mixed relay at the WC (most recently, a screw was loose on the rifle)!
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Sandra Näslund, ski cross
– I must have forgotten the number plate or something like that at some point. When I went slalom, I know that I inspected the track wrong at some point, so then I went out in the wrong direction in a turn. It’s clear that I did it in ski cross as well, inspected the wrong thing and came out in the wrong direction. But there is nothing else I can think of that has been so decisive.
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Filip Gravenfors, hump run
– I’ve tested some vaults outside the hump, where I sometimes landed on my stomach and hit my head and got a little dizzy before the start. It’s probably not very optimal. That particular competition didn’t go so well, so I’d rather forget the skis (like my colleague Rasmus Stegfeldt) than hit my head (laughs).
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Linn Persson, biathlon
– When I forgot the rifle! It was at the WC 2019, I forgot the bag for the relay. I finally got it, thank God. But it was a simple question!
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Kristoffer Jakobsen, alpine
– It was a European Cup competition my first year in the national team. Then I took a competitor’s skis up to the start. I never met him so I don’t know who it was … I think it was a Russian skater. It was embarrassing, then I felt a little bad, but luckily it worked out. But he must have had time to get stressed and feel really bad, he must have thought that someone had stolen the skis!
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Stina Nilsson, biathlon
– It wasn’t at a competition, but we had a training session at a media day (in Idre) last year. Then I got a feeling on the last lap, drove really hard and completely forgot that we were going to shoot! So then I had to turn around, go back. And everyone was there. It was like just “no…!”.
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Sven Thorgren, snowboard
– Apart from rolling? No, I actually don’t know. It was difficult. I don’t seem to have minded it.
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Frida Karlsson, cross-country skiing
– Oh, what could it be? If you were to ask others, they would probably list things, haha, but I can’t think of anything myself.
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Felix Monsén, alpint
– At my first WC in St Moritz (2017) I had forgotten the GPS on the boot so I had to run and screw on a bracket so I could get it. If I hadn’t had the attachment, I would have been washed. I had to run – and slipped on a patch of ice right in front of the TV camera! It wasn’t fun. I received quite a lot of text messages from mates wondering “what the hell are you doing?”. I didn’t hurt myself, but it was a shame.
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Hanna Öberg, biathlon
– At the Junior WC a number of years ago, I was supposed to run the first leg of a relay. It didn’t start so well, I shot a penalty round in the prone position but it was just a matter of driving on. In the standing shooting, I think I shoot a quick zero – but it turns out later that I shot it on the wrong board! That meant we got 16 additional minutes. It was two minutes for each penalty round I had not taken (five rounds) and two minutes for each extra shot I did not use (three extra shots). It was a lot! It should also be said that it was a relay with three legs, and that each leg usually does not take much more than 16 minutes.
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Walter Wallberg, hump course
– The craziest thing I’ve done in competition, one hundred percent, is when I drove against Kingsbury (world number one Mikaël). Then I got stuck with the pole in the third hump after the start and ran out before the first jump. It was in the grand final so I came second, it’s absolutely the craziest thing I’ve done. It was just bad.
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Sara Hector, alpine
– I must have done a lot of stupid things … I forgot the back protector on the way up to the race at the Olympics (2022). But Peter (Öberg), our physical trainer, fixed it. It could have gotten a little rough…it was stressful!
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Oliver Magnusson, freeskiing
– In the Olympic slopestyle (eleven, 2022), I tried to do a way too difficult ride, with the best tricks I’ve ever done. And it didn’t work. So it was awkward.
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Anna Magnusson, biathlon
– When I was going to ride my first WC race (2015), I had managed to drag the chip with me when I took off the coveralls. So when I started, I didn’t have a chip. We looked everywhere and I ended up having to start a minute late because it took so long to find it. And then I also dropped a magazine somewhere during the race… I remember the leaders yelling it at me on the track and then I thought “I’ll never be able to ride again!”.
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Calle Halfvarsson, cross-country skiing
– I don’t know if it’s the clumsiest thing I’ve done, but I put the pole between my legs, in the sprint prologue in Falun, right between my skis so that I just dove on my stomach right in front of all the people. It’s quite embarrassing and was a bit clumsy.
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Lisa Hörnblad, alpine
– It’s probably a lot of stuff … I’ve definitely forgotten some protection so that you’ve had to drive without it. But then you just have to bite the bullet and not tell anyone, just drive.
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Emil Holmgren, hump run
– It was a competition where the person who was supposed to start me said I had the wrong vest, so I wasn’t allowed to start. Then I had to go around and look at the start, because someone had taken the wrong vest. Then you were very stressed, had to change your vest quickly and then start almost immediately. But you still thought a little more about it than about the competition, so it still went quite well.
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Elvira Öberg, biathlon
– I can’t think of any really cool stuff, however unnecessary. At a World Cup relay in Antholz, I got a lock in my neck during the competition and lost feeling in my hands. Then it became very difficult to shoot while standing, so then there were a lot of rounds!
2023-12-15 08:27:21
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