Alvar Myhlback became the best Swede in the Olympic sprint with his ninth place. Furthermore, there were no Olympic races for him.
He went home early from the games. The national team management announced that he did not qualify for the relay and that he would rather go home than take part in a hilly five-mile race.
In an interview with SVT, Myhlback says that he himself doesn’t think he was good enough at classic distance races to run the five-mile race at the Olympics.
– Especially in Val di Fiemme, where there is just as much uphill. “I didn’t train for that,” he tells SVT.
But rather than canceling himself, Myhlback describes it as an attempt to get pegged as early as the five-mile mark.
– I feel like it was so obvious that people thought I should have driven the five miles. Then they made it sound like I didn’t do it wanted ride a bit more and that I went home. But I would have liked to have ridden with the relay team, he says.
When he was home After training for the Vasaloppet, he was asked to come to Italy again to serve as a reserve for the five-mile race. It wasn’t relevant to Myhlback.
– I didn’t understand: “If you get down, you can drive.” Then there were three more days race. You were tired and trained here as much as possible. I didn’t particularly feel like going down to maybe drive.
At the same time, he says that he is not disappointed that he was unable to compete in the five-mile distance or the relay.
“I was 100 percent prepared that I was going to go down and do the sprint and then go home,” Alvar Myhlback tells SVT.
On Sunday he will be back at the Ski Classics when the Vasaloppet between Sälen and Mora will be decided. Myhlback won the race last year as an 18-year-old.
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