Anna Swenn Larsson crashed in yesterday's first slalom race and Kristoffer Jakobsen did the same today and the last hope for a Swedish medal disappeared.
- I feel sad and the expectation was something else when we went here.
It's brutal margins and pole out.
I feel most sorry for the athletes who looked forward to this after hard training and the leaders who worked to create the conditions for good results, says Stolt Halvarson to SVT Sport.
What could you have done differently?
- It is hard to say.
There are small margins.
When we will look at this afterwards, you can certainly find things that you might have done differently, but right now we have not done that analysis.
Looking for cooperation with other countries in the speed branches
What do you need to do on the men's side?
- It is a generational shift that depends on different things.
Right now there are few men (only Kristoffer Jakobsen and Mattias Rönngren on site at the WC) but we have results from the Youth Olympics and the JVM with Swedish guys and we will build from the bottom up from, among other things, clubs and ski gymnasiums.
What happens to the speed bet?
- Felix Monsen is rehabbing and will hopefully be back in full swing.
We probably need to cooperate with other nations because it is expensive to run a venture as a single nation and there we look at cooperation and have dialogue with several other nations, says Stolt Halvarsson from a sunny Courchevel where the interview is interrupted by a deafening audience roar from a French skiers in the slalom course.