OAR/OSLO: Henrik Kristoffersen is a perfectionist. He does everything can to be as good as the head of the possible.
A good picture of it, we got the 20 seconds after that Kristoffersen had the day’s gold medal and was completed with the mandatory seiersbildene. On the way out of the target area received Kristoffersen see their own andreomgang on the big screen. There he was standing in order to analyze, even if mediamann Espen Graff was very enthusiastic to push him further.
So dedicated is he.
Properly annoyed
Kristoffersen noted that that he in the upper part of the second omgangs-the trail had missed, in particular a turn. Despite the fact the gold was Kristoffersen still very irritated by the time he left at the top.
world Champion, but not the gullgutten Norway likes to love
I’m really annoyed that I femteporten over hengkanten is too bad on the throttle in any way. It is too bad. I lost not too much, since I came quite high out yet. But it irritates me, ” says Kristoffersen.
What does it say about you that is what you are most concerned about after a world CHAMPIONSHIP gold?
– Everything can always be better. Kjetil André Aamodt toasted well on the head every time he was in goal anyway. I have read in his book. It’s about a vinnerkultur where one should always improve, always get better, ” says Kristoffersen.
It was going to be a fierce duel against the French Alexis Pinturault and austrian Marcel Hirscher. Between the three boasts the only 18 hundredths after the first half of the Oar.
Down in the road in the second half still had not Pinturault or the Hirscher chance to hang out with at the 24-åringens amazing pace.
He impresses particularly where there win. He takes down the giants and take his first world cup gold. It is completely, completely amazing, said Kjetil André Aamodt at the NRK.
Fourth-the curse is broken
Thus could Kristoffersen finally cheer for a world CHAMPIONSHIP medal. The last three launders he has run in the world cup he has three fjerdeplasser and have only had two, five and eleven hundredths up to the podium.
After the finish there was clearly a relief for Kristoffersen that it had finally loosened in a world championship.
– It is huge. When you have three fjerdeplasser in a row in the world cup, with a few hundredths each time, you have not won a race in over a year and not the giant slalom since Meribel in 2015 and you have worked so hard in all the years you have held for and against a lot of odds so successful it is final, ” says Kristoffersen.
Henrik Kristoffersen took his first world cup gold in his career
