12:01. On Sunday morning, Jarl Magnus Riiber did not shine on the ski jump in Oslo (Norway) where the Nordic Combined World Cup is taking place. He had a modest jump of 110.5 m, putting him in 21st place. He is one minute behind leader Ilkka Herola. ” I have an hour to think about whether this will be my last ski race,” he told NRK (quoted by TV2). He is therefore considering not going to Lahti (Finland), where the season will come to an end. ” I’m terribly tired,” he said.
Jarl Magnus Riiber, the most successful Nordic combined athlete of all time, has announced that he will be calling time on his career at the end of the winter, and will not be taking part in next year’s Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. His decision was prompted in part by a recent diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive system.
He could therefore bow out in front of his home crowd.
