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CNA
26-05-2025
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- CNA
Cross country skiing-Norway's Johaug won't compete in 2026 Olympics
Norwegian Therese Johaug, a four-times Olympic cross country skiing champion, announced on Monday that she will not take part in next year's Winter Olympics. The 36-year-old retired from the sport after winning three gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics but announced a comeback in August to participate in the Nordic World Ski Championships in the Norwegian city of Trondheim where she won three silver medals. "It has been an adventure to be back on the team this winter, but even though I still love skiing, I feel a strong need for more time with my family," Johaug said in a post on Instagram. "I look forward to cheering on the Norwegian team from the sidelines on the road to Cortina and want to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported me during my comeback." The February 6-22 Olympics will be co-hosted by Milan and the Alpine town of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Reuters
26-05-2025
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- Reuters
Norway's Johaug won't compete in 2026 Olympics
May 26 (Reuters) - Norwegian Therese Johaug, a four-times Olympic cross country skiing champion, announced on Monday that she will not take part in next year's Winter Olympics. The 36-year-old retired from the sport after winning three gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics but announced a comeback in August to participate in the Nordic World Ski Championships in the Norwegian city of Trondheim where she won three silver medals. "It has been an adventure to be back on the team this winter, but even though I still love skiing, I feel a strong need for more time with my family," Johaug said in a post on Instagram. "I look forward to cheering on the Norwegian team from the sidelines on the road to Cortina and want to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported me during my comeback." The February 6-22 Olympics will be co-hosted by Milan and the Alpine town of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Washington Post
26-05-2025
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- Washington Post
Ski great Therese Johaug puts family first and ends career before 2026 Winter Olympics
OSLO — Four-time Olympic gold medalist Therese Johaug is retiring from cross-country skiing, opting against competing at next year's Winter Games. The 36-year-old Norwegian made the announcement Monday, saying she wants to put her family first. It's the second time Johaug has announced her retirement, having first quit the sport after winning three gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. She made a comeback last season for the Nordic skiing world championships held on home snow in Norway. Johaug would have been competing at her fourth Olympics next February at Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo. She missed the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics while serving a ban after testing positive for a steroid in a lip balm. 'It would have been fun to do the Olympics in Italy,' she told Norwegian broadcaster NRK, adding: 'I want to be a full-time mom.' Johaug has a two-year-old daughter with Nils Jakob Hoff, a two-time Olympian in rowing. Johaug won her first Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010 and took silver and bronze at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. The 14-time world champion also won four medals on home snow at the Nordic worlds held in March at Trondheim. ___ AP sports:
Associated Press
26-05-2025
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- Associated Press
Ski great Therese Johaug puts family first and ends career before 2026 Winter Olympics
OSLO (AP) — Four-time Olympic gold medalist Therese Johaug is retiring from cross-country skiing, opting against competing at next year's Winter Games. The 36-year-old Norwegian made the announcement Monday, saying she wants to put her family first. It's the second time Johaug has announced her retirement, having first quit the sport after winning three gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. She made a comeback last season for the Nordic skiing world championships held on home snow in Norway. Johaug would have been competing at her fourth Olympics next February at Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo. She missed the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics while serving a ban after testing positive for a steroid in a lip balm. 'It would have been fun to do the Olympics in Italy,' she told Norwegian broadcaster NRK, adding: 'I want to be a full-time mom.' Johaug has a two-year-old daughter with Nils Jakob Hoff, a two-time Olympian in rowing. Johaug won her first Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010 and took silver and bronze at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. The 14-time world champion also won four medals on home snow at the Nordic worlds held in March at Trondheim. ___ AP sports:
BBC News
22-02-2025
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- BBC News
Biddulph veteran achieves long-held Invictus Games dream
When he was lying in a hospital bed in 2020 with a fractured skull and broken neck, Rob Shenton might have thought his dream of competing in the Invictus Games was years later the army veteran from Biddulph, Staffordshire, has returned from Canada after taking part in this year's games, a special sporting competition for people injured when serving in the armed 52-year-old came 19th in the Nordic Skiing event and achieved a personal best in the indoor while he seemed pleased with his performance, he told BBC Radio Stoke he was struck by the "outstanding" camaraderie among competitors from all nations. "We've all been united by something that's happened to us and normally that's trauma of some sort but we're all being healed on the recovery journey that we're on," he said."At the end of the day, we were all service personnel, we've all had our own battles and we're all getting through them." Mr Shenton was in the British Army for 25 years, serving in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan, before he was medically discharged due to suffering with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).He applied in 2018 to be on Team UK in the Invictus Games but was unsuccessful, as he was on the next two 2020, he was injured in a cycling accident breaking six vertebrae and fracturing his spent eight months recovering, with help from staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, returning to training shortly afterwards before he was accepted onto Team UK at the fourth time of asking. Despite finding it difficult to compete against the younger athletes, Mr Shenton said he had to appreciate just how far he had come, describing it as "part of the journey".He accepted he would probably never be in the army again, despite saying he would give up everything to put on the uniform now, he said he would continue to focus on his work as a civil servant and on improving himself physically and next Invictus Games take place in Birmingham in 2027. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
