“It’s going to go on the shelf now,” Swedish TV station SVT quoted Stina Nilsson as saying that she would focus on cross-country skiing in the future, in which she won five Olympic medals and won 26 World Cup races.
They will focus on long distances. He joins Norwegian team Ragde Charge.
“It’s cool,” Nilsson praises the feelings of returning.
In the biathlon, she was unable to follow up on the great successes of cross-country skiing. In the individual races of the World Cup, she stood on the podium once – in March 2022, when she finished third in the sprint in Kontiolahti at the end of a season that she could still consider very promising.
But it was bad in the next two winters. No degrees. And she began to have big problems even with just qualifying for the Swedish team at the World Championships.
In addition, there were accompanying reports about problems with forgotten magazines and other schoolboy biathlon mistakes…
“The first two years were very good and I made a lot of progress, which I am proud of. I reached the podium in the World Cup. I rate this very positively. Then there were two worse seasons,” she pointed out. There were more and more difficulties with shooting, chaos, frustration…
“It pissed me off, so the decision to go back was very easy. Now I feel like I’m closing a book and opening a new one. It’s time for a change, I’m setting out to meet new challenges and goals,” added 30-year-old Nilsson.
