14:46. Ebba Andersson is “really angry”.“ I’m being treated badly,” she said on SVT. On Saturday, the recent individual world champion was disqualified from the 18.6km classic at the World Cup in Oslo (Norway). She had finished third in a race won by Therese Johaug.
A quarter of an hour after the end of the race, the Swede was shown a yellow card for not respecting the classic style. She had already received a yellow card in December during the Tour de Ski. She learned of the news even though she had already spoken to journalists in the mixed zone. ” I was told I had to go to the jury room,” she told Expressen.
Her team lodged a complaint but it was rejected. “ My ski sticks out a bit and I quickly bring it back in the right direction without pushing it anywhere else,” Ebba Andersson explained in Aftonbladet. She simply wanted to parry a fall. ” You can clearly see on the video what is happening,” she adds. Before concluding: “I’m not here to cheat in any way”.
The Swedish federation must now decide whether or not to follow up on this case.
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