– There was a huge staff holding the medal in its pendant. After some back and forth we left this small section as it was impossible to get up (out of the snow under a sign).
Ebba Andersson doesn’t want to say that the Olympic medals are of poor quality, but laughs as he notes:
– I don’t know if the medal is designed to be hung around your neck while running half the race, and also at Frida Karlsson’s pace.
– I was a bit too stupid to follow her.
Speaking of consequences: What do you say about the race when you could no longer keep up with their pace?
– Today she was a little too strong in the skating part. So I definitely think it’s a good feeling that there are opportunities for revenge on Thursday.
Ebba Andersson has Stripped by journalists on a conveyor belt after she crossed the finish line 51 seconds after the day’s leader Frida Karlsson. She says that after 20 kilometers of skiing you lose your mind a little – that she had such a coherent sound that only sounded in her head. She and Karlsson hugged and smiled, but it still took a while for the joy to really come.
– Now that I understand it, I realize that this is my third Olympics, but only my first individual medal, and then you get a little perspective on things – how hard and difficult it is to actually be successful when it counts. And against this background, this silver medal is of course particularly welcome.
After the tough Olympics in Beijing four years ago, where they won “only” one relay medal, Andersson said the gold and silver were a long-awaited start to the Games.
– I think we were both pretty relieved.
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