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The best Swedish biathletes were scheduled to recharge for the season at an altitude camp in French Font-Romeu earlier this fall. Nothing came of it. The collection was canceled due to the virus situation.
Tiril Eckhoff and the other Norwegian biathlon profiles traveled to Italy in October, after making a different assessment than the Swedes.
– To be completely honest, I’m actually a bit jealous. For our part, we weigh from one side to another for a long time. But our risk assessment was that it wasn’t worth it. If we go there and get sick, we may not make it home. For us, it weighed more, says national team runner Mona Brorsson to the TT news agency.
They (Norway) probably thought that the value of being in height outweighed more. They may have thought the risk was low enough, he adds.
The Norwegian athletes noted, among other things, that the competitors could gain an unfortunate advantage if the high camp in Italy is canceled.
– I too can believe that argument. I really wish I had been at that height. But we could use the facilities at home and be in the high-rise chamber, Brorsson says.
She rather suggests that she believes the Swedes have lost ground to their rivals this fall. It could have consequences for the Beijing Olympics in 2022. Then he will compete at high altitude.
