SARAH BACKMAN NOT IN THE SWEDISH TEAM 11:14 04/12/2013 Sarah Backman, a multi world and European champion will not represent Sweden at the Championships in Lithuania. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Why? Sarah explains: I'd like to share with you some news and my thoughts and opinions. I'm sad and I hate the Swedish system and federation. It turned out I'm going to miss the most important championships of the year this year, 2013. European- and World Armwrestling Championships. I missed the Swedish Nationals, where one has to win or place 2nd to qualify for the team to represent the country. The reason I missed it was because I did an ARMWRESTLING-TV-job in Japan. In other words, I was promoting our sport. It does not matter that I won double golds at the European- and World Championships 2012, only 5 months ago, undefeated - which no Swede has ever done before. No one takes that into account, at least not in my own country. I knew the Swedish system but that