Norway star Bjoerndalen ends glittering career
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Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has announced his retirement from the sport he dominated for over two decades, winning eight Olympic gold medals and 20 world titles in a glittering career spanning 25 years.
“My motivation is unstoppable, you know that, and I feel that it (biathlon) is just as much fun today — I would have liked to have had another year, but this is my last season,” Bjoerndalen told a news conference as he struggled to hold back the tears. Known in Norway as “the King of Biathlon”, Bjoerndalen revealed that he had had several episodes of heart palpitations over the last year. “I responded well (to treatment) and I got very good help from my medical team, but I was always trying to catch up,” he said of his final season in which he finished 43rd in the World Cup and missed out on selection for the Pyeongchang Olympics. Bjoerndalen, 44, won 13 medals and was the most successful winter Olympian of all time until Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen broke his record by taking her tally to 15 in Pyeongchang.
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