We will miss very much, Petter, BUT not all,
Skiing was a completely different with Petter Northug in the tracks.
It’ll never be the same without him.
Who is going to annoy the Swedish skaters now? And who should we annoy us? It will be empty without Petter Northug in skidcirkusen. Empty and sad in its own way.
An era is over. No matter what that takes it will never be the same again.
On the other hand, we have actually gotten pretty good.
Petter Northug drove his latest and his last världscupstävling in Lillehammer at the beginning of december a year ago. He went out already in the qualification, and fled straight out into the forest with his disappointment. It was not the first time he laid his legs on his back and fled the questions and their inner demons.
IN the world CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 competed Petter Northug, thanks to his token title defense (fifth in the sprint, eight on the femmilen), the place in the squad, he gave himself away. The OLYMPICS in 2018, he was not selected for.
the Body has the last few seasons have been extruded without providing answers, the brain has been put to the test and patience has trubbats after overtraining and an imbalance in oxygen climate in the Alps.
the Legs have not responded, and to the end of said heart from.
Petter Northug turning the page.
He leaves behind a number of memories and a changed sport.
Masstarterna had already made its appearance when the junior skier from Mosvik sniffed at the top. Petter Northug took on the world cup with a unique spurtegenskap that he consciously developed and refined in order to be able to determine the races in which he lojt could klungåka through.
His ability to put all the power in the right direction and to develop maximum forward speed was fascinating. He ran when the others have gone. The Norwegian, who has 20 mästerskapsmedaljer, has forced skiing on the men’s side to take a new direction, as a Gunde Svan did before him.
Johan Olsson took up the challenge to find the code to crack Northug and conducted a performance in excess of the ordinary when he broke the field and paradåkte stretchandes tricpes against his beautiful world CHAMPIONSHIPS-gold 2013.
But the Norwegian star came back.
Among the Petter Northugs success feels gold medals in 2015 that is most impressive.
He ran not only for a new success. Petter Northug came to Falun for redress and honor after fylleskandalen then he driven a car alcohol.
Löpningarna in diagonalbackarna in the sprint in Falun is still fixed on the retina, and how he found the power to sprint home femmilen in the heavy snow that fell is still a mystery.
It is actually Petter Northug himself also.
In the individual meeting appears to be Petter Northug as a shy, almost timid.
in 2010 I went with Petter Northug and Marcus Hellner to Las Vegas. A PR-trick, with intervjutid where the young Norwegian sat opposite to me at a fancy poolside bar, looked under the pile, spoke low and tried to answer balanced.
in Front of microphones, tv cameras and tape recorders, he has turned more into a monster. He has – like a Zlatan Ibrahimovic – enjoyed the game and created uncertainty about its moves. He has not learned to do it at other people’s expense.
There has been a page that has been entertaining, really fun, and his moves and hunting in particular at the Swedish rider has lifted the hate-love between Sweden and Norway, to a new level.
There is a part of Petter Northug, who is Swedish. His frame of reference Good&Mixed, Sunny side, Kalles Kaviar is a Swedish, which meant that the banter and påhoppen landed with impact in the blue and yellow mass.
But there have been times that Petter Northug had gone too far when he humiliated opponent (Kollen and Pig-gate) and stomped on the opponent in an insensitive way.
It has probably been the one, the only, way to go for the skier who has been best angry and exasperated. A way to get the nutrition, the fuel and into the strands when tvångstankarna malt as they have done after the world CUP 2011.
But how much skiing has really meant for Petter Northug did we – and perhaps he himself – first in the day.
”Längdskidåkningen is not the most important thing in life, but for me it is everything. It has been ever since I was little. I have dedicated my life to längdåkningen and it has given me everything I have,” writes Petter Northug in his latest book ”My story”.
touching the tears today were real.
It is also missing from the us who have followed you.
Petter Northug is one of skidhistoriens greatest racers and maybe the biggest star.
It is a pity that it ended too early.
