15:43. For a number of weeks, rumours had been circulating that Tarjei Boe might pull out all the stops at the end of the 2024/2025 winter season. Already hesitant last season, the Norwegian finally decided to give it another go during the summer.
Having struggled for many weeks, the Scandinavian gradually picked himself up and went on to win the mass-start in Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie) in style last December. And while his brother, Johannes Thingnes, surprised everyone by announcing the end of his career at the end of that year, the eldest of the Boe siblings had not yet given his views on his future.
A brilliant winner of the sprint stage in Antholz (Italy) on Friday afternoon, the 36-year-old biathlete broke down in tears in front of his country’s journalists. The reason: the man with three Olympic titles announced that he too would be putting his foot down at the end of the current season: “I promised myself that the next time I won a World Cup, I would stop. Now you know my decision,” he told NRK in the mixed zone.
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