Biathlon: Dorothea Wierer soon to be orphaned by the Boe brothers
Last spring, Italian biathlete Dorothea Wierer announced at an online press conference that she had decided to continue her career until the end of the 2025/2026 season. This decision was taken to enable her to compete in the Olympic Games at home in February 2026.
“I took two months off after stopping my season following the World Championships and a number of illnesses. It was great, I’d lived a good life and that enabled me to make my decision. I realised that it would have been a shame to end that part of my life like that. So I decided to carry on. I’m working hard to come back and I’m going to do my best to be there for the 2026 Olympics,” she said at the time.
At the time, she thought she would be able to bid farewell to competition in the company of Johannes Thingnes Boe, who had also long since set March 2026 as the date for the end of his career. However, the Norwegian has just announced that he will be retiring from biathlon in March 2025… like his older brother Tarjei Boe.
“I would have liked to stop [in 2026] with them because we could have had a great party together like in the good old days, Dorothea Wierer reacted with a smile in the Fondo Italia columns. Nevertheless, of course we’ll be celebrating at the end of the season in Oslo-Holmenkollen.”
On 23 March, the day of the season-closing mass-starts, the party promises to be great indeed on the heights of Oslo (Norway). And tickets are going fast.
