Biathlon: “It’s a sad day,” says Emil Hegle Svendsen
Dramatic twist. Earthquake. Norway will not soon forget this Saturday, January 18. In the middle of the day, Johannes Thingnes Boe gave a press conference in Germany, where the biathlon world cup is taking place this weekend. He announced that at the end of the season he will end his career. A decision that he had made public a few minutes earlier in a message published on Instagram. “We are nearing the end of a dream”he declared to journalists, before stopping speaking to wipe away his tears.
He was an emotional man who spoke in front of an entire nation.
NRK – the equivalent of France 2 in the Nordic country – has in fact gone into a special edition, interrupting the broadcast of the national cross-country ski championship races. She broadcast live and in full the exchange between the champion and the press. What its Swedish colleague, the SVT, also did.
Nobody expected it, if we are to believe Ola Lundeconsultant for the public channel. “He may have lost a little motivation, but it’s a huge surprise for me”he said. “I had a little shock this morning. It's been a great honor and a great pleasure to be part of the same team as him, so it's a sad day.”for his part indicated Emil Hegle Svendsen.
His coaches and teammates were informed of his decision in the morning.
-“It’s very sad. He is one of the best biathletes of all time. I would have loved to see him compete in the Antholz Olympics, but if he feels it's right to stop now, so be it.”reacted the three-time Olympic champion Marte Olsbu Roeiseland.
For the Secretary General of the Norwegian Ski Association, Morten Djupvikwho spoke in a press release, biathlon loses one of its most legendary athletes. And also the most popular. It was also amidst applause that the athlete left the room.
Johannes Thingnes Boe is thirty-one years old. He is one of the greatest biathletes of all time.
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