– Right now it is very difficult. That’s what a Sturla Holm Lægreid says, dissolved in tears to news. He is not allowed to go to Sunday’s joint start after breaching the IBU’s safety rules, and on Saturday he spent several hours with the Swiss police. Reason? He has fired a dangerous shot inside the athletes’ hotel. LEARN SEG: Sturla Holm Lægreid. Photo: Anders Boine Verstad / news – It’s very crazy. It’s boring when that happens, but it’s true. We engage in a sport that can potentially take lives, so all safety lapses must be handled with the strictest possible hand. So I just have to accept the consequences of what happened, he says. Was at the police yesterday The biathlete explains that the accident happened during the preparations for the sprint on Friday. He did routines as usual. – But the difference was that this time we got the shots in the hotel, not down in the bow, as we always do. When I later did dry training, as I usually do, a wet shot was fired in the dry training area against a wall. The shot went off by accident inside the biathletes’ hotel in Switzerland. THE SCENE: This was where the dangerous shot was fired Photo: Anders Boine Verstad / news – The International Biathlon Union and the jury for the men’s joint start in Lenzerheide have decided to deny Sturla Holm Lægreid from starting in today’s competition, due to a breach of the IBU’s safety rules, the association states in a press release. No one was injured by the stray shot. The IBU is now working together with the Swiss authorities, who are investigating the case to obtain information. Based on this, they will eventually assess whether any further measures should be taken. – I was with the police for a few hours yesterday. I wrote a report, and they do the paperwork and the formalities, but they said that there will most likely be no consequence, says Lægreid. Got ammunition at the hotel Sports manager Per Arne Botnan is clear that this is a case that Norway’s national team does not want to have, but that they will be open about what has happened. – We must be tidy and honest so that we can sleep well at night, says Botnan to news. SPORTS DIRECTOR: Per Arne Botnan Photo: Anders Boine Verstad / news They therefore informed the IBU about the incident, and the IBU took it up with the organizer and the police. The latter appeared on Saturday to look at the area. – Lægreid says that he got the shots at the hotel instead of at the stadium. Why did you change that procedure? – We live very close to the stadium. The usual procedure is for the runners to get their starting numbers and ammunition in the booth at the stadium, and to get everything ready there before going to the stadium. Here a proposal came up that they could get start numbers and ammunition at the hotel, so that they could go directly to the stand and not via the booth, says Botnan. He further explains that it is new for the athletes to receive the ammunition at their place of residence, and that it should not happen again. – Whether that is a contributing factor, I do not know. At least we have said it now, that from now on they will get a starting number in the booth and ammunition at the stand, Botnan asserts. Ola Lunde is not impressed. – I am simply disappointed by routines among the Norwegian runners, but at the same time this is quickly done. In any case, this means that everyone has to sharpen up, says news’s biathlon expert. – Are you surprised that it is Lægreid that is happening? – Yes, I see him as an extremely careful and systematic gentleman. But everyone can make mistakes, and this must lead to everyone else sharpening up all the way, repeats Lunde. Now the question is whether the boss at XXL must tempt with more pay 01:08 Stressing so much that he loses the magazine 00:24 Crying after screwing it up while changing skis 00:37 Breaking down after the flower ceremony 00:55 Show more
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