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It was a strange sequence for everyone who sat in front of the SVT broadcast and followed the exciting finale of the beginning of the search.
Linn Svahn, Maja Dahlqvist, Ebba Andersson and Frida Karlsson were the four in the group who chased the podium behind top Therese Johaug. But after one of the last downhill races, Svahn and Dahlqvist suddenly disappeared.
– What happened here? It must have been an accident, said commentator Jacob Hård on SVT.
So it was. Both Svahn and Dahlqvist had collapsed on the slopes and, according to Svahn, it was all due to Ebba Andersson.
But there were no television images of the incident.
– It was a case, says Linn Svahn to SportExpressen afterwards.
– I think it was very easy to avoid it. It was so unnecessarily done …
How could it have been avoided?
– Stay the course and be a bit calm. It could have been avoided quite easily, we did three out of four laps downhill.
Who got off the track?
– It was Ebba.
The head of the jury on the accident.
Ebba Andersson herself, however, had a different image of the situation. According to her, it was someone behind who pushed her forward, and then she jumped off the track to avoid getting into the Russian in front.
– To be honest, I don’t take a bit of blame in that situation, says Ebba Andersson.
In this type of situation, the jury usually steps in and determines if someone has made a mistake. In such cases, the punishment can be relevant, from verbal warning to disqualification.
But when SportExpressen meets the head of the jury, Pierre Mignerey, he simply raises his arms.
– We don’t know what happened in that situation.
You don’t have TV pictures either?
– No, this happened in one of the few points on the track where we do not have cameras. We can see about 90 percent of the track here. And that’s pretty cool.
Why is this so?
– Covering the entire course is basically impossible. In such cases, we would need drones. Now we have several television cameras along the track and through them we see almost everything.
However, according to Pierre Mignerey, there is nothing to indicate that Ebba Andersson had committed any infraction of the rules.
– No, we have not received any complaints. There may have been a violation of the rules there, but we don’t know. And if there are no images, we cannot decide on any punishment.
– But I can hardly see anyone do anything deliberate on that alpine ski. It was probably an accident.
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