Biathlon-Thingnes Boe breaks gold medal report with dash win

The 31-year-old was tied with Bjoerndalen on 20 gold medals earlier than his newest victory, and although he has stated he’ll retire on the finish of the season, there are nonetheless loads of races left for him on the present championships so as to add to his tally earlier than he skis off into the sundown as one of many sport’s greats.

“It feels wonderful. What a incredible day, certainly one of my greatest sprints ever. Getting the twenty first victory within the World Championships to make historical past in my final championships right here is unbelievably good. I don’t suppose I may have had a extra excellent competitors, and I couldn’t be happier right this moment,” he stated.

“Having the ability to move Ole Einar Bjoerndalen himself is an enormous milestone, in my e-book at the very least.”

Thingnes Boe hit all of his ten photographs and was greater than 27 seconds quicker than New Zealand-born American silver medallist Campbell Wright to move Bjoerndalen, who was generally known as the “King of Biathlon”, when it comes to gold medals, however his complete of 38 world championship medals is seven wanting his countryman, who took residence 45 in complete.

Sadly for Thingnes Boe’s many followers watching again residence, they did not get to see his last sequence of photographs reside because the TV manufacturing missed them, resulting in robust criticism from the 51-year-old Bjoerndalen, who was working for Norwegian TV as an analyst.

“At this time it was one out of 10 factors. It was horrible. You can not miss the large favorite within the standing ,” he stated. “I can’t describe how catastrophic that’s for a TV manufacturing.”

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