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If there is something Björn Ferry detests, it is doped athletes.
So much so that he does not hesitate to threaten Micke Leijnegard to get what he wants.
He himself talks about how he tried to get the SVT host to noble a certain Swedish athlete.
– “If you take her to the champion’s champion, then I will go down and spell you,” he says.
Björn Ferry46, is now one of our most popular and appreciated expert commentators on Swedish television. In SVT’s winter studio he offers interesting and fun analyzes and scouts. But a little over ten years ago he was an Olympic gold-winning biathlon who had just put the rifle on the shelf.
Björn Ferry is passionate about sports without doping
Since the farewell from his own sports career, Björn has on several occasions used his celebrity to drive environmental and climate issues. He describes himself as an “ambassador for sustainability and a climate -smart lifestyle”. Therefore, since 2017 he has stopped flying altogether – he takes the train wherever he is going. For example, when he commutes between home in Storuman and work in Stockholm.
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Another thing, in addition to the million, which he is passionate about is pure sport. He detests doped athletes and often goes to the ceiling when he hears about some biathlon or other athlete that cheated. When he, former alpine star Pernilla Wibergthe hockey expert Jonas Andersson and the host André Pops Discussed doping and sports in SVT’s Winter Saes they come into Russian-Swedish Ludmila Engquist60, which won Olympic and World Cup gold in hedge running and also competed in Bob while using anabolic steroids.
Ferry’s unexpected threat to Leijnegard
Pernilla Wiberg says that she met with other athletes who do not understand why Engquist “outdated” in public when it was discovered that she was doped.
– When Ludmila Engquist got stuck … and that case was huge. Then this athlete said to me, “Yes, but why did they go out in the media with it? Why was it public? ”. At all seriously. I was losing my chin. But they thought she could only end up in a way a little nice and it had never come out, she says in the program.
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Then Björn Ferry takes tone. He talks about when he strongly advised the champions champion hostess Micke Leijnegard60, from having her in the program. Ferry himself was a participant in 2016, but only came sixth in his season.
– She got a very harsh punishment that I think most people thought was right, even though you now have sympathy for her as a human being and all that. I know I told Micke Leijnegard that: “Do you take her with the champion’s champion, then I will go down and spell you,” he says and continues:
– “huh? What? Shouldn’t we be able to bring her with her? ”. No, I think so. I don’t think you should have doped athletes in the champions champions. For me, it is the limit, which is not a rule. But which is like … no, they have to set examples.
What do you say about Björn Ferry’s actions here? Was it right that he warned Micke Leijnegard and the Master’s champion production to bring Ludmila Engquist? Feel free to comment and share your thoughts!
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