Before national team rider Oscar Svensson dropped the stick, and then also injured his knee, he was on his way to a very good run over 15 kilometers of classics on Saturday.
At 4.3 kilometers, the 22-year-old was noted at a time before top duo Jens Burman and Dario Cologna, but then he accidentally stepped on his own stick, and it also went off.
- I was in the flow of the world and it felt really good, but there I lost focus and it took a long time before I got a new stick, Svensson said then.
"He looked very strong in the opening there before the incident came," Oscar Svensson's coach Mattias Nilsson told Radio Sports.