I’m the one who decides

She probably wants to forget the mass start at the World Cup last year.

Then little sister Elvira Öberg won. Hanna Öberg ended up in last place with a broken rifle.

Now only one biathlon race remains at this year’s Olympic Games in Italy: the mass start on Saturday in Antholz.

The Swedish biathlon women are on the rise after a slow start to the Olympic Games. Last Wednesday there was relay silver. It is said that many competitors are now tired – so it is important to keep a cool head.

In the women’s relay Hanna Öberg was forced to make an extra throw on her final stretch of each series, but was able to hold her own at the wall. However, this efficiency was nothing compared to the French star player Julia Simon, who scored direct hits with sovereign majesty in 20 and 18.7 seconds respectively, giving France a clear gold victory.

– That’s probably where she’s almost at her best when she comes into the game and has a big lead, says Hanna Öberg about Simon.

– Then it’s like she can have a show. It would probably be more stressful for her if several of us were inside at the same time.

Yes, the fact is that, despite his recent performance, the Frenchman is not the fastest shooter in the individual races. These are the pursuit start winner Lisa Vittozzi (Italy) – and Hanna Öberg.

Both lie and standing shooting are taken into account in the three decided individual races, the duo averages 23.1 seconds per shooting series.

– I want to feel like I’m the one making the decisions on the mat. “I want to be efficient and goal-oriented and have weight in the entire implementation,” says Hanna Öberg.

She reaches her tenth major championship and has won 18 championship medals.

“For me, the topic of efficiency comes naturally,” the 30-year-old previously told DN.

– When I started racing the World Cup, you could really take your time on the shooting range with the biggest stars. Because everyone who was the best shot really slowly! But that’s really not the case now. There is now an extremely high standard in all parts.

Sister Elvira Öberg is Normally she is a slightly faster shooter than at the Olympic Games (29.5 seconds average time in Antholz). But at the Olympic Games she had a difficult time on the fence, also in terms of the number of hits. There were two errors in the distance, two in the sprint and five in the pursuit start.

That’s why it was particularly nice to be the only one in the Swedish team who showed full performance in the silver relay on Wednesday. Even if it took some time.

“The fact that I fired all ten shots before the mass start feels good,” says Elvira Öberg.

– Prone shooting felt great, it was nice to get revenge right at the start of the hunt. Standing was a fight, but it was just war.

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