It was already visible on Jonna Sundling's stretch that something was wrong as her skis dropped more and more.
- It destroys the rhythm, it destroys the ride.
Of course, thoughts start to come: "is there something wrong with the skis", says SVT's expert Johanna Ojala.
And it got even worse on Charlotte Kalla's stretch.
"A mental game"
- Charlotte Kalla just lets out of the stadium and then she's just like a chewing gum the whole distance.
I have never seen anything like it, says the expert Mathias Fredriksson.
- You do not get this positive flow and you see Norway noticing that Sweden has bad skis, they are positively tagged.
It is clear that it is a mental game.
As a skier, you hope that this will change, you do not want to admit that you have bad skis.
But it is not possible to ski that way.
"Something must have been done"
- You have to have done something because you can miss a bit with the skis, but here it must be a blunder somewhere, says Mathias Fredriksson.
After the race, Sweden's polling station manager Petter Myhlback says that they failed with the grazing today.
- They have delivered good skis throughout the period down here.
Sometime every winter it will be a miss and that it would come just today was unnecessary and boring, says Mathias Fredriksson.