In an interview with Expressen, the two biathletes reason about body fixation and say that they are used to having their bodies assessed.
- There is a completely different fixation on what sports girls look like, that in some cases you care more about it than the performance itself, says 24-year-old Hanna Öberg, who has both Olympic and World Cup gold on the merit list.
- As a sportswoman, there are much more expectations, compared to how men feel, that you should look a certain way.
Stina Nilsson says that the comments are often about what she eats.
- I can be extremely provoked by this.
And am not only me as an elite athlete who gets to hear this, my girl friends can tell me how they in food queues can hear "should you really buy that", or "should you take so much of that", she says to Expressen .
Ericsson on weight in Formula One
Other female athletes who have raised the same issue are, for example, the athlete Moa Hjelmer.
She welcomes the debate on weight in sport.
- If you only focus on body images and show your body in perfect angles, you contribute to an unhealthy society, without you perhaps wanting to, she told SVT Sport in April 2019.
Male athletes have also drawn attention to the problem of weight loss and unhealthy diets in the pursuit of hundreds.
Swedish Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson tweeted earlier this year: "I remember that it was extremely tough mentally and physically to constantly try to lose weight."