Biathlon: Johannes Thingnes Boe has arrived in Lenzerheide
Starting this Wednesday in Lenzerheide (Switzerland), Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe will begin competing in his ninth and final biathlon world championships. Having retired at the end of the season, the five-time winner of the crystal globe will be looking to add further medals to his immense list of achievements.
“In a way, I’m enjoying all the latest things we’re doing. I’m really looking forward to taking part in this championship, but even though I know that’s the case, I don’t have that impression,” he explains in the columns of TV2.
To prepare for this event, Johannes Thingnes Boe went home for a week to recharge his batteries with his wife and two children. But the plan didn’t go according to plan. “They were a bit ill, so I spent a few days alone at the chalet [in Sjusjøen, editor’s note], he reveals. When they recovered, I went home for two days before going to the training camp [on the Lavazè pass] with the team.”
At the head of an impressive collection of twenty world titles, Johannes Thingnes Boe, should he win another gold medal in the next ten days, would overtake the legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. “I thought a lot about the records until Christmas, then I had time to think and they took a back seat. But if everything goes well now, it’s a possibility [to beat them]”, admits the Norwegian.
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