It is a happy and bouncy, almost restless 28-year-old who meets SVT Sport after a long and hard training period in October.
She develops her reasoning:
- It is very difficult to make progress when it has already reached a very, very high level.
I had to go back from the beginning and feel that I made some development in the training even though it was very small steps.
To just learn to swim again ...
The whole journey that culminated in an Olympic silver. What has it done to the human Sarah Sjöström?
- You do not take it for granted too much, that you should do elite sports at this level.
Maybe you did a little bit before but now you start to understand that it is not everything but there are other challenges.
Before, I took it for granted that you would make progress, but now I really celebrate it and get extra happy when there is something going in the right direction in training.
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Newly started Sarah Sjöström: "Had to go back from the beginning"
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