Urheilu follows Urheilustudio’s weekend moment by moment in this article.
Tero Seppälä reached his best ranking of the current season in the Biathlon World Cup. He was 13th in the Anterselva sprint race. Seppälä shot one missed shot in the competition.
He missed the winner Norway Not enough Fuck off 49.8 seconds. The difference in the first place was 47.2 seconds.
He was hoping for an intact performance before the race and that’s what he got.
– Fairly smooth skiing. Maybe it started to weigh on the last lap. Sad one fine. Today has been a tough level on the bench, Seppälä described his race to Urheilu.
Zero shooting would probably have been enough for around 6th and 7th place.
Seppälä also made it to the biathlon superstar in the last ski round John Thingnes Bon to the pees.
– I didn’t stay very long. He should have had the last round and I should have had the first. Now it was the other way around. It was pretty tough. However, it is not impossible to keep up. If only in pursuit, Seppälä thought.
Seppälä also talked about the challenges in skiing.
– There are sick cases on the maintenance side. There’s not much room to break anyway. Help has then been taken from coaching. I myself also went to test differently than normal. However, Finns with heart always succeed, Seppälä revealed.
Otto Invenius also fired one miss. He was 19. The difference to the winner was one minute and 8.9 seconds. He is entering the pursuit race for the first time this season.
– The quick trips have gone into the notebook, it’s so nice that it went really well now, Invenius said.
On the ski slope, Invenius enjoyed the peese. He liked shooting.
– Makuu had to fire the first shot when the heart rate could not stabilize. Once the shooting started, it was easier. Sadly, the last one passed. I don’t know where it went. It was still good shooting, Invenius described.
Urheilu’s biathlon expert Kaisa Mäkäräinen interpreted from the interviews with the athletes that it was more maintenance men who got sick.
– We heard that it was spoken in the plural. There are four maintenance men in Finnish maintenance. If maintenance is left to two men, it sounds like the beginning of my own career. The two men will have work, Mäkäräinen described in the commentary.
Tarjei Bö also said that she was quitting
Shocking news was heard in biathlon last week, when Johannes Thingnes Bö announced that he was ending his career. Now big brother told about a similar solution Tarjei Bö.
– I made the decision to quit some time ago. I knew when the season started that this would be my last season. I wanted to wait for the right moment to tell. I told myself that if I win one more race, I will say it then, Tarjei Bö said in an interview with .
Tarjei Bö justified her decision so that telling the moment of termination would become a special day.
– It would be a memory for the rest of my life. The kind of day you’ll remember forever, says Tarjei Bö.
He burst into tears after his victory in TV interviews. Tarjei Bö realized her previous thought about telling the finisher when she had put on warm clothes after the victory was secured.
Bö had already considered quitting after last season, but felt that he still had energy. He wanted to win a couple more times.
– I have a very high competitive drive. I have been competing for a long time and have been doing this purposefully for 20 years. I was 16 years old when I joined the national team. However, preparing for the Olympics requires a lot, Tarjei Bö justified her termination and said that she no longer has enough energy for the Olympic season next season.
The Johannes brother told that he wanted to get out of the constant squirrel wheel, which he thinks is elite biathlon.
– This is quite a new thing for us. Now we will go to a good dinner and continue from there, Johannes Thingnes Bö answered questions about the brothers’ curiosity.
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Updated at 19:02. Added information about Tarjei Bö’s termination and added Tarjei Bö’s and Johannes Thingnes Bö’s comments.