A few days before the start of the 2025 World Biathlon Championship, there are several problem children in the Swedish team. The most prominent is Elvira Öberg, who still couldn’t train with the team and is slowly becoming nervous.
On February 13, the starting signal for the 2025 World Cup in Lenzerheide will be given. It is already clear: The season highlight comes too early for Sweden’s top runner Elvira Öberg. The Olympic champion of Beijing suffered a stubborn cold in front of the World Cup races in Antholz and lost two full weeks before the most important races of the season. You do not know how to do your physical condition in the Swedish team.
Öberg is scheduled to complete a first stress test on Saturday. It is planned that she will take part in team training again for the first time under full stress. “It is clear that this is an important session. It is one of the last hard units before the World Cup,” emphasized the 25-year-old to “expressed” the meaning of this test.
Öberg one of the big favorites at the biathlon World Cup
“For me this becomes extra-important, because I only ran alone recently. It is a good way to determine how my shape really is, how my body reacts and how quickly I am compared to the others,” she said About the team training on Saturday.
Öberg looked back on her cold. “I was still calm for a while, but when I was really sick for four or five days, I felt that I really wanted to get well again. The clock ticks to the World Cup,” said the Swede, who was one of the absolute top -Favorite on title and medals will travel to Lenzerheide.
In addition to Öberg, Sebastian Samuelsson and Johanna Skottheim also had to take a forced break. She didn’t get it that hard, but the failure came to them too. “In addition to a cold during the World Cup, this timing is the worst,” said Samuelsson about his cold, which held him “three or four days” from training.