Calle Halfvarsson: Latest Setback & News

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Fiasco Calle Halfvarsson, 36.

The Swede did not advance from the sprint qualifying.

– It is bad through and through, he tells Viaplay.

The Olympic ticket is already ready for Calle Halfvarsson, who announced before the season that he was betting on sprinting.

But in Val Di Fiemme it will rather be a distance race than a sprint race.

The Swede has no results that suggest he could deliver in the sprint at the Olympics. And in Goms it was another fiasco race.

Halfvarsson finished far behind in 49th place and thus misses the quarter-finals.

– It’s going slowly all the way, unfortunately. I don’t know. Bad through and through. I can’t ride at height, it never seems to work, he says in Viaplay.

After the race, he was sawn by Viaplay’s expert Teodor Petersson.

– Looks more like he rode 20 kilometers than a sprint race. This was not a good qualifier. He probably opened quite hard and couldn’t make it all the way, says Viaplay’s expert Teodor Petersson.

Most likely, the result means that there will be no sprint for Halfvarsson at the Olympics.

– There are others who can sprint better. It is what it is, I got a chance and now it is what it is. Then I have to bet against the other. It’s boring, of course, this is a track I thought would suit me, but when you don’t have the strength, it gets worse with a track this tough, he says and continues:

– I have to go home and recharge my batteries and see. But it feels quite hopeless for tomorrow too, I have to do what I can now.

“Finally!”

Edvin Anger finished third in the qualifier after a super race.

– Finally, you can almost say! This looks significantly better than what we saw earlier in the season, says Petersson.

Jesper Persson, Anton Grahn and George Ersson also made it to the quarter-finals.