TRONDHEIM, norway (Dagbladet): For the 18 days since the completed Northug it was seen as a spirited sprint when he was number two in Gålå.
Still, announced the Norwegian skistjerna today that he already throws in the towel as langrennsløper – at the age of 32 years.
– No, it was as I said, that I did not feel I had the progression to be with and fight for the most prestigious in February. And it measures not through a race at Gålå, it knows the training and from what you know. You know where the level is, “says Northug to the Newspaper and continues:
When I did not get it lifted as I wanted, and I did not respond as I wanted after the competition either, so it was easier to make the choice,” says Northug to the Newspaper. the
Even if Northug announced that he would take a decision on his future career before christmas, there were several who were surprised when the final decision came.
Surprised,
It includes many Arild Monsen. The day after that Northug informed dad John about the final decision, talked the coach with Monsen on the phone.
It was surprising. It came a little bardus on, it was a bit like that finally, but it is not something to do with it. It was surprising that he should do it now, but it was not something sjokkartet. We knew that it could happen in a way, it is the kind of world we live in, ” says Monsen of the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
– It was a little unreal, but at the same time I am a realist. I believe in realism and not to embellish it – to tell it like it is, ” says Monsen on.
There was a disturbed main character who met the press at a hotel just outside Trondheim in the morning. When Northug would account for the choice and then back at his own career, came the tears, which proved to be difficult to stop.
the Start of an adventure
After a short break met Northug pressekorpset again to part two of the session, after having gathered in a few minutes. Then he had it easier to put words on his feelings. the
the 32-year-old says that he could not have dreamed that he would be so successful in winter sports.
– No, I have not, far from it. I brought myself very privileged when I won my first world CHAMPIONSHIP gold medals. I never thought it was possible. However, it turned out, when you sit here today, that it was only the start of what would be an adventure for my part, ” he says to Dagbladet.
– the Time goes fast as a sportsman, and one must take care of the possibilities, and I feel that I have done. It makes sure also that it is easier to take such a decision, when things don’t work, when you know that you in a way has … Sporty is a little saturated motivasjonsmessig, and then I think it is much easier to put back then, ” says Northug.
Would add up
And it is not the first time he has been full of langrennssirkuset. May 2014 came the message that Petter Northug had crashed his car in drunken condition. On today’s given the same treatment was 32-year-old questions about what he thinks about the episode today.
When it was revealed that he perhaps would never have participated in the Falun world CHAMPIONSHIP, if not the serious episode had happened.
– There is an episode one would be without, but it is an episode that belongs in the story of Petter Northug. I learned a lot of it, and the episode got me enough to extend the langrennskarrieren forward to the day when, ” says Northug.
I had most likely not been on the starting line in Falun if the episode had happened. Most likely, I had been done for the Sochi championship (the OLYMPICS in Sochi in February 2014, journ.anm.). It was to poke a bit of the old nerves from childhood and picked up them again, so that I managed to rope me into the system one year, forward to the championship. And even though I should have been besides, it was informative and I used the episode right also, next year, and ahead to the world cup, ” he says further.
So no opinion
Northug told Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that he is also considered to add up for Falun world CHAMPIONSHIP, where he won four gold, two of them individually. It was after the gold on femmila that the thoughts about karrierestopp came creeping.
– Yes, I was very sure a period of time that it was over. I didn’t see any purpose and meaning in to go any more, I did not. I didn’t find anything that drove me sporty, but I felt perhaps that it was there that I stood alone in private and felt that I had to go back in the rings, with the agreements I had, ” says Northug to answer the following questions if he should desire that he put up previously in his career:
– Perhaps, both yes and no. I think it has been fun to be with. This year has been very difficult, even if it has not reached any results. I have been on a new team, a sprintlag, it has been a very fun year as I’m not going to forget. I think it could have been over much earlier also, it could have been, ” says Northug.
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Northug failed to hold back the tears when he a scant quarter of an hour previously set on the podium and talked about the brothers ‘ importance for his career. The main character himself didn’t think he would show so much emotion today.
Afterwards, he sat patiently and answered questions from the turnout journalists in more than a half-hour, where he answered everything from questions about Calle Halfvarsson and all the conflicts up through the years, to the question whether he was appropriate for the available trenerjobben in Rosenborg. the
And Northug bedyrer that he did not have any plans to make a comeback in the toppidretten after the current season.
– No. It is totally secure, ” he says bombastic.
– You do not look for you in all that you can get as bright in august next year, that you are trying in ca. three months to see how good you can be?
to date, no, not at all, responds Northug.
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Many Arild Monsen had on his side been an optimist after Northug showed a tremendous acceleration and speed between the last time, when he was together with the rest of the team.
Monsen thought, therefore, Northug could come back in kind, after what he showed on his very last sprint in Norgescuprennet in Gålå.
I thought about it, for that which is with Peter, I thought that it was on sprint it had to be done if he should come back. And so it was there that we had some workouts where we just tried to improve the prolog-quality, for when he comes in a quarterfinal, is he like a new person, ” says Monsen and continues:
– Then he’s suddenly well within the top 30, but it doesn’t help if you fail to qualify, then you will not participate. So it is there as has been the case until he then. We tried a little frantically to the road when, but it didn’t, ” says Monsen.
Northug was 25 in the prologue at Gålå, something which would not have been in the vicinity of the advancement on the sprint in the world cup, where the best athletes participate.
This weekend came the final message to his closest that Petter Northug has made his last wooden on top. the
He leaves behind a legendary status that will be hard to top for those who come after him.
I thought: “Where did he come from? And what driver is he with?”