{"id":19262,"date":"2022-10-28T05:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-final-comma-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:03:41","slug":"the-final-comma-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-final-comma-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-broadcasting-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"The final comma – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcasting schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is something fundamentally risky about claiming already in the title of a book that one should tell exactly “the whole story”. The absolute does not exist in such contexts. And both Therese Johaug and her co-author, news journalist and colleague Anders Skjerdingstad, know that well. This is the subjective story of threats, harrowing meetings and not least the purchase of lip creams in northern Italy. Dirty wings The doping verdict will always be a burdensome part of the story of the ski star from Dalsbygda in \u00d8sterdalen, because we are just talking about the whole story. TEARS: Johaug after receiving the verdict that led to his ban back in 2017. Photo: Vidar Ruud \/ NTB Johaug is what in northern Norwegian popular culture could be called an Angel with dirt on his wing. That’s how brutal the sport is. And Johaug tells with noticeable empathy about his part of the events, in a case that became a turning point in Norwegian skiing history, for bad and perhaps also for good. But there is still no remorse to be read from Johaug’s words. And that is actually a little surprising. Because this is a case where the objective, i.e. the finding of the banned substance Klostebol, trumped the subjective, i.e. her lack of intent. Then it would have been possible to hope for a greater degree of self-criticism – especially now that athlete Therese Johaug has received her sporting redress, not least through the individual Olympic golds she still lacked when she was suspended in 2017. Nevertheless – the verdict against her did that our whole self-image as a skin nation had to be reassessed and matured. Obviously, so did the person Therese Johaug. The person and the myth, no less. GOLDEN HERO: Johaug won three golds during the Olympics in Beijing earlier this year. Photo: ODD ANDERSEN \/ AFP Ecological and sustainable Ski pensioner Johaug gives a tour behind the facade of the active ski star Johaug, which to many seemed excessively calculated, bordering on cold at times. A constant sense of lines that have been pre-fabricated – and a smile that never reached the eyes. Nothing is pre-fabricated in the background Therese from Johaugen tells about, from the family farm in Dalsbygda, from the barn, about care, about Christmas preparations or Grandma Mommo. Everything is to the highest degree organic and sustainable. But the road from there to really giving an understanding of who the myth Johaug really is, is as long as the one from the 18-year-old who takes a sensational WC bronze in 2007 to her getting her final vindication with the three Olympic golds in Beijing 15 years later. Eat your food Here we approach a much bigger picture. In the chapter simply called “Eat more!” she tells a hitherto unknown story about problems with eating enough. About the advice from Professor Jorunn Sundgot Borgen about, among other things, weighing the food that turned out to be wrong for ski girls aged 17 or 18. Johaug simply had to go on a fat diet, which eventually gets her on the right track, also in terms of weight. At the very last minute so as not to be denied skiing in the winter leading up to the WC on home ground in Holmenkollen in 2011. Her friend Ingvild Flugstad \u00d8stberg is the one who has had to endure many heavy consequences of the same type of problems, also in the public eye. Only now do we learn how close it was that this story had been about Therese Johaug many years earlier. Instead, Johaug’s further career ended up being defined by the mighty WC gold in 30 kilometers in front of an ecstatic home crowd in Holmenkollen a few months later. But the very strongest parts of Johaug’s story revolve around feelings other than the troubled relationship with food. GOLDEN HERO: Johaug won three golds during the Olympics in Beijing earlier this year. Photo: ODD ANDERSEN \/ AFP A boy named Sten Anders In autumn 2012, she gets control over her food intake, she says. And she “got to know a boy called Sten Anders”. Sten Anders is the younger brother of teammate Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen – and has until now only been described as a close friend in public. But which was much closer than that. Therese now says that she and Sten Anders were lovers for almost a whole year. But also the painful story of the grief and questions she and the rest of those around her were left with after he took his own life just before the start of the Olympics in Sochi in 2014. A best friend called Ida And the other poignant part of the story, the one about Ida Eide, the friend back from the Russet era, she Johaug went to Copenhagen with to hear Coldplay in concert. MOURNING: Cross-country skiers Ragnhild Haga and Ingvild Flugstad \u00d8stberg were sad when they commented on the death of Ida Eide during a short press conference in Livigno in 2018. Photo: Heiko Junge \/ NTB “Life is short as the falling of snow”, which they sing in a line of text reproduced in the book. Ida Eide, who falls over and dies during the Norgesl\u00f8pet at Jessheim in autumn 2018, while Johaug prepares for the comeback championship in Seefeld a few months later. And about a very special WC, where Ida’s little sister Mari Eide takes her first championship medal ever. Therese Johaug herself takes three golds and once again shows her unique ability to live out grief through physical performance, whether it’s in hill running or cross-country skiing. “It’s time to turn around, Therese, it’s a waste of energy”, as her father Thorvall is said to have advised her. And this is also how the biographical version of Therese Johaug appears. “The whole story” is the story of perhaps the greatest cross-country runner of all time. And if she tells much more about herself than before, there are still unanswered questions. Including what was actually written in that text message from Petter Northug after their first meeting at Tynset. Sometimes you actually have to be allowed to keep the whole secret.
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