The bleeding in the buttocks after the chin injury in the hotel room on Tuesday continues to torment Karlsson, who is not recognized at all in the Tour de Ski.
Today she followed well at the beginning of the mass start but then dropped out.
- I'm doing as well as I can.
There was no step forward actually.
It's nothing you get rid of in half a day.
I have to fight hard and did the best I could with today's conditions, says Karlsson down to SVT Sport.
"Frustrating"
She struggles without getting the capacity that is available.
- It's frustrating and I know what I can do.
That is not entirely true.
Will you run the sprint tomorrow?
- Yes ... I do not know ... In a way it is good to get the experience with competitions and so on, but at the same time it is very frustrating not to get what I know I can.
Karlsson has previously said that she is very pessimistic immediately after the finish line in less successful races, but that the perspective usually changes with a little distance to the effort.
- I definitely think that Frida will start on Saturday.
She has a good starting position even if the injury inhibits her and she does not get the answers she wants, says Anders Blomquist.