Eugene. Tonight begins the World Cup and Sweden has good chances to get a dream start.
If the national team captain Kajsa Bergqvist is flagged? Little.
“I walked into the stadium and felt how he started shaking my leg and then I watched it and I got goosebumps all over my body,” she says.
Download finished. Tonight, the World Championships in Athletics begins.
Kajsa Bergqvist He breathed a sigh of relief at the last press conference and mentioned that Sweden has a healthy squad with nearly half of them ready to enter competitions already during the first day.
Without directly competing with Daniel Stoll or Mundo Duplantis, the Bergkvist team already has good chances of making a dream come true.
At midnight Swedish time, Perseus Karlstrom took a bronze distance, 20 kilometres, from the World Cup in Doha. And later in the night Thobias Montler, who will hopefully be fighting for medals already a day later, qualified.
Success is very important to the whole team, it is contagious. Kajsa Bergqvist who made a frantic start to competitions with 10 active competitions already on day one, says he would have been very cool with such a start.
“Is Bunny in second place?”
Do you get a pulse as it approaches?
– I really understood! Today we toured with all the captains and we walked around the field and when we got on the track I could feel how he started shaking my leg and then I watched it and I got goosebumps all over my body, she says and laughs.
Accommodation may be a little basic, but Kajsa Bergqvist thinks the atmosphere inside Hayward Field beats it.
I always thought Stockholm was the most beautiful stadium in existence, but this is the second stadium for me. She says it is very cool.