"Marit Bj rgen you should not see your son for 2 months, a danger to his health"

Nor is it a mystery that the Norwegians are particularly scrupulous (to use euphemism) on precautions to avoid bacterial infections during the season. However, how much "suggested" in the past few days by the team doctor's background is paranoid.

Monday 8 May 2017 3 minutes reading time

Petter Olberg has told the tabloid VG that "this year it is preferable that Marit BjÃ¸rgen does not have any meetings with his partner and his son. If you want to do well in the Olympic Games, you have to pay a price, Far from their children. When I was working with the Nordic Combined Team, this was a practice. In some periods the athletes were out of the house for some time. The most important of these periods goes from New Year's Eve to the beginning of the great seasonal event. During that time, athletes did not live in the same house as their children, the risk of infection was too high. Children are a very high risk factor in transmitting disease, and athletes need to reduce the level of physical contact with them. " Translated, according to Olberg's words, BjÃ¸rgen should not live with his son Marius (who came to the world on December 25, 2015) for nearly two months or New Year's Eve at the end of the Olympic Games (February 25), having at the same time the slightest physical contact Possible with him. We do not know which protocol followed Marit when approaching Lahti World Championships 2017, where he was often immortalized with the small heir but in the light of the results obtained (4 gold medals in 5 races) the impression is Which do not need big changes. At the same time, we know that biathlete Emil Hegle Svendsen has spent 3 months without even kissing his companion (and his future wife) just to reduce the risk of infection in view of the Hochfilzen World Cup 2017. His best result in the iridated context was A 27th place ...

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