14:01. On Friday, Calle Halfvarsson ‘s winter season probably didn’t get off to the start that the experienced Swede had imagined. Lining up in the skate sprint of the opening Swedish cross-country ski races, the Scandinavian suffered in Bruksvallarna (Sweden).
Although he had managed to reach the semi-final stage in the position of lucky loser, the 35-year-old cross-country skier failed to make it to the starting gate a few minutes later. The reason? A back problem that prevented him from performing at 100%.
I haven’t trained much in recent weeks, but I’ve mostly been sitting at home and stretching a lot,” he explained to SVT Sport in the mixed zone, pointing out that these back pains are nothing new. If it doesn’t get better tomorrow, it will be difficult for me to compete. We’ll see.
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