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Five Burning Questions for Peppe Femling

Sweden’s Peppe Femling was in the small group of biathletes leaving the sport when the season closed in Canmore. Although not a household name, Femling stands out not because of individual results, although he did win IBU SBWCH Sprint and Super Sprint medals, but as a reliable relay leadoff leg. Kicking off Sweden’s 2018 Olympic Gold medal-winning Men’s Relay team is his most notable success. However, he was also the first leg in three World Cup Relay wins, also winning Silver and Bronze IBU World Championships Men’s Relay medals in an international career that started at the 2010 IBU YJWCH in Torsby, Sweden. Femling has one additional impressive achievement in his career: overcoming a devastating injury. Six months after his Olympic Gold medal, Femling, to avoid being hit by a car warming up for a rollerski race, fell into a ditch driving a ski pole completely through his calf muscle. A hospital operation that day removed the pole; eight days later, he was back training, and competed in the World Cup for six more seasons. And that is the rest of the story.

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