Tomas Pettersson: Take vacation now, call! – Expressen

FALUN. Charlotte Kalla whizzing into a wall called Monster Hill, torments his way through a intervjuzon with tired eyes, and loons then away in the snowstorm.

She said do not feel so good in the soul.

she certainly does not look to do it.

the solution?

Well, how about a couple of weeks commanded holiday.

Already at the beginning of the week it started to get a little strange signals from the Swedish ski star.

instead of – as usual – be involved and test tracks the day before World Cup race in Stockholm stayed Charlotte Kalla home an extra day in Sundsvall.

– I needed a full day at home, so call time.

then came Castles Sprint.

and a 23rd place.

Then came five kilometers in Falun.

and the ninth.

When the 28-year-old almost laconically, trying to answer questions if its race gets answers brief and bland.

She just looks to long off.

And it’s probably not a bad idea.

just ask Heidi Weng.

Many lacked the Norwegian star of Castle sprint on Thursday. 24-year-old Weng, normally a world-class printer, chose to stay at home in Norway.

– I was not feeling so good, actually. It felt like I lost faith in myself, says Heidi Weng when we meet for a while after the race.

Oops. What did you do about it?

– Took a break from this. Trained at myself. And so I come here – everything is good again – and suddenly, I now have a lot of confidence again.

Sometimes it need not be harder than that.

And given that the Cold now nearly 400 (!) points from where the third place in the overall World Cup is the stool dream run.

so why not do this, Charlotte Kalla:

Take a little vacation.

Skip the next weekend’s World Cup races in Lahti – where one of the races is also sprint.

Rest, train, nurture your soul – and Go then to the Tour in Canada and show how good skier you are.

For right now looks the most like you just suffer.

Charlotte Known ninth place was actually the worst of Swedish investment in a distance race in the World Cup since December 2014.

Disaster?

Not at all. But while a good distance from what Charlotte Kalla, the 6,900 spectators at the calm and a million TV viewers are expected.

I have no greater expectations that it will go that much better in today’s mass start here in Falun. Everything indicates that it takes more than a night’s sleep in a bed in the Scandic Falun to find the strength needed to

challenge Therese Johaug & amp; Co.

For example, a little mini vacation.

– It can definitely be a way to go. IDA INGEMARSDOTTER made only just as a few years ago – and then came back and was on the podium at the next race, says coach Rikard Grip.

Well then. That’s just to order that the holiday then?

– While it is important not to take any hasty decision. We’ll see what we come up until after the weekend, says Griffin.

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The gentlemen?

It was fun to see the 21-year-old talent Jens Burman to struggle to a 24th place. Less fun to affirm that it was also equal to today’s best Swedish investment.

You could say this:

I really hope that coach Grip succeed with his persuasion campaign to get Johan Olsson and Daniel Richardsson to return to the team next season.

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Finally we lift the hood and bow us pleasantly for men Maksim Vylegsjanin, Aleksander Bessmertnykh and Maurice Manificat.

In the new ski Alliance World to Norway saw you to sweep the podium clean of all Norwegians who camped there through the winter.

Thank you .

It certainly was about time that the World Cup could do right for his name.