Thomas Wassberg always showed emotion.
And especially the time he stormed out of the target area – and fenced off an entire corps of journalists.
Tomas Wassberg is without a doubt one of Sweden’s foremost athletes of all time. The icon had a long and successful career, and has hero status with large sections of the Swedish people.
Incredible career
It was above all the legendary’s huge winner’s skull that was so lovable, and the one that made him so uniquely successful. When Thomas Wassberg ended his career, he had merits that few in Swedish cross-country skiing will ever be able to match.
On his merit list, Wassberg has four Olympic golds, three World Cup golds, three silver and one bronze. It is really incredibly impressive, and there are many who associate the entire cross-country skiing with Thomas Wassberg.
The icon’s enormous popularity has also made TV companies chase him. And in 2009, Wassberg finally appeared in SVT’s successful program Mästarnas mästare, and there he, together with other sports legends, gets to take part in a clip during his career.
The outbreak against the journalist corps
And it really is a clip that is Thomas Wassberg in a nutshell. Judging from the pictures, it is an enormously disappointed Wassberg who enters the target area, and has no interest at all in talking to the entire journalist corps.
– Wake, wake !, you hear Thomas Wassberg say as he fencing off the reporters with his sticks.
A widespread laugh among the profile takes place, and it is really not difficult to understand why. You also hear that someone on the sofas pulls in with the comment: “Media-trained”, which blocks the whole thing further.
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